Cañon of the Rio Las Animas

William Henry Jackson, artist

1843–1942

Cañon of the Rio Las Animas, circa 1880s

Where object was made: Colorado, United States

Material/technique: albumen print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 43.5 x 53.1 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 17 1/8 x 20 7/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 30 x 36 in

Credit line: Museum purchase

Accession number: 1978.0111

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Exhibition Label:
"Claimed: Land Use in Western America," Jun-2007, Kate Meyer
“Apparently with the rise of industry, we began to romanticize the wilderness - which is to say we began to industrialize it within the concept of the ‘scenic.’ Because of railroads and improved highways, the wilderness was no longer an arduous passage for the traveler, but something to be looked at as grand or beautiful from the high vantages of the road-side. We became viewers of ‘views.’”

Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America:
Culture and Agriculture, 1977