Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Carleton E. Watkins
Section of the Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite
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October 7, 02:31 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Carleton E. Watkins
1829 - 1916
Section of the Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite
mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted, signed in ink on the mount, 1861
image: 16 ¼ by 20 ¾ in. (41.3 by 52.7 cm.)
Private Collection, California
By descent to the present owner
Peter Palmquist, Carleton E. Watkins: Photographer of the American West (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press and Amon Carter Museum, 1983), pl. 11
Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), p. 51
Galen Clark, Canadian-born American conservationist and writer, is shown standing at the base of the massive Grizzly Giant, the oldest sequoia in Mariposa Grove. Clark was named Guardian of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove in 1866. This view is one of the thirty selected by Watkins in April 1863 for the first publicly issued set of mammoth prints made from his 1861 set.