Armchair First Friday…
Include San Francisco on your itinerary for the next First Friday Art Walk scheduled for whatever town in Maine you are living in.
Paul Caponigro, Yosemite Valley, California, 1972 • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Scott Nichols Gallery’s OUR NATIONAL PARKS exhibit is a stunner – and I can’t even begin to think how great these images must look on the gallery walls. Putting the exhibit online for the rest of us poor winterbound eastcoasters is such a gift, so take advantage of this largesse and take a look. A long one.
William Henry Jackson, Mt. Harvard, Sawatch Range, View South On Arkansas River, Colorado, Circa 1872 • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Approx. 50 photographs from William Henry Jackson and Carl E. Watkins to Ansel Adams and our own Paul Caponigro are on view. The exhibit is up to see through March 27.
Michael Rauner, Inspiration Point, Yosemite National Park, California, 2005 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
And if you are actually going to SF in person and can see this exhibit before it closes on March 27, don’t tell me. I don’t think I could take it.
Rondal Partridge, Pave It And Paint It Green, Yosemite, mid 1960′s • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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I always get warm and fuzzy feeling when I visit the Smithsonian – finally our tax dollars at work in a way that I can appreciate. Love the free admission to OUR history and culture and arts.
And here’s a show to see: FRAMING THE WEST – The Survey Photographs of Timothy O’Sullivan.
O’Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer. Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho.[United States], 1874.1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen.
Notes: Original negative number: 92.
Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1874; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding.
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O’Sullivan was a young war photographer, working with Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner throughout the tragic Civil War, but in 1867 joined the team charged with surveying the fortieth parallel led by Clarence King (did you catch this amazing book about King? “Passing Strange – A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line” by Martha A. Sandweiss? You really, really don’t want to miss this one…) Then in 1871 he joined another team that set out to survey the one hundredth meridian. In 1873 O’Sullivan led his own expedition to document the cliff-dwellers and pueblos. We can never truly understand how amazing these expeditions of exploration and documentation were. But there are plenty of books out there to read and try and comprehend the magnitude of it all.
SLIDSHOW: SMITHSONIAN/Timothy O’Sullivan – see it here!
