At the Mouth of Cold Water Canyon, Dells of the Wisconsin

c. 1900

Henry Hamilton Bennett

Artist, American, born Canada, 1843 - 1908

From the flat top of striated, sheer rocks, we look down onto a person rowing a canoe toward us in a river in this horizontal black and white photograph. The rocky banks funnel the river, which comes toward us, like a canal. Evergreen trees are spiky silhouettes against a cloudy, pale sky. Printed text at the bottom left of the photograph reads, “At the Mouth of Cold Water Canyon, Dells of the Wisconsin. Copyright by Henry H. Bennett.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.9 × 24 cm (7 7/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 18.9 × 24.6 cm (7 7/16 × 9 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.30.24

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: At the Mouth of Cold Water Canon, Dells of the Wisconsin. / Copyright by Henry H. Bennett; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 049878

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