Mirror Lake, near the Wisconsin Dells

c. 1900

Henry Hamilton Bennett

Artist, American, born Canada, 1843 - 1908

We look across a glassy lake at a V-shaped slice of cloudy sky between banks of trees that reach from the top corners of this horizontal black and white photograph to just below the center of the composition. The forest and sky are reflected in the water below, turning the V of sky into an X. A wooden dock extends into view from the lower right corner, and a few branches from a tree out of sight dip down across the right half of the top edge.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 19 × 24.3 cm (7 1/2 × 9 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 19.6 × 24.9 cm (7 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.30.20

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Katz, North Bennington, VT; Paine Webber & Co., New York, 27 December 1992; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 041291 / PW7067

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