Lower Jaws, Dells of the Wisconsin

1903

Henry Hamilton Bennett

Artist, American, born Canada, 1843 - 1908

Two men in a canoe row toward us and a bank of rocks and boulders lining the bottom edge of this black and white, nearly square photograph. Sheer cliffs and trees rise from the banks to each side. The cliffs narrow like an almost closed letter C a short distance from us and then open onto wider tree-lined banks beyond. Puffy clouds skim across the sky above.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 19 × 23.8 cm (7 1/2 × 9 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.30.22

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

bottom left printed in black ink: Lower Jaws, Dells of the Wisconsin. / Copyright 1903 by Henry H, Bennett.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 041289 / PW 7066

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