About the Artwork
Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, California
1861
Carleton E. Watkins
1829-1916
American
Unknown
Albumen print
Image: 20 5/8 × 15 3/4 inches (52.4 × 40 cm) Mount: 24 × 19 1/4 inches (61 × 48.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Edward E. Rothman Fund
F81.42
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Markings
Signed, in brown ink, lower right: C. E. Watkins
Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower left: 15 1/2? 20 5/8?
Provenance
(Daniel Wolf Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Nickel, Douglas R. Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception. San Francisco, 1999 (pl. 19), p. 61.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Carleton E. Watkins, Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, California, 1861, albumen print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Edward E. Rothman Fund, F81.42.
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