Rock Formation with Figure

c. 1900

Henry Hamilton Bennett

Artist, American, born Canada, 1843 - 1908

A person sits in a rocky formation at the edge of a dense forest in this horizontal black and white photograph. The rocks are blocky and horizontally or diagonally striated. The person sitting inside has pale skin, a dark mustache, and wears a dark suit. A stretch of sand separates us from the structure.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.9 × 24.2 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 19.5 × 24.5 cm (7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.30.21

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, top left in graphite circled: 1

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