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In the summer of 1861 the photographer Carleton Watkins visited Yosemite Valley for the first time. Carrying with him nearly 2,000 pounds of photographic equipment, his journey would change the way Americans thought about landscape and the western wilderness. The photographs he took there were among the first of Yosemite ever to be seen in the East, and the New York Times hailed Watkins’s images of the now-famous falls as “...indescribably unique and beautiful.” The great American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt was among those who visited Watkins’s show in New York, and made his second of two trips west shortly thereafter. His painting of Hetch Hetchy Canyon is also on view in this gallery.

(Sept. 2016)

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