 Artist's arttributes:
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Photography |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 65 |
| Germany | 3 |
| Canada | 2 |
| Netherlands | 2 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Oakland Museum of California, USA |
6 |
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Fraenkel Gallery, USA |
4 |
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Scott Nichols Gallery, USA |
3 |
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Henry Art Gallery, USA |
3 |
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MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA |
3 |
Biography: 
1829 Born in Oneonta, NY (US)
1916 Died in Imola, CA (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 75
Solo shows 14
2012
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| Golden Gate Bridge - Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2010
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| An Illustrated View of Yosemite - Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2009
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| Discoveries - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Carleton E. Watkins: Yosemite Photographs - Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV |
2008
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| Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
2002
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| The Majestic Lens: Carleton Watkins's Yosemite - Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA |
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| Carleton Watkins - Recent Acquisitions - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2000
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| Carleton Watkins - the art of perception - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1999
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| Carleton Watkins - The Art of Perception - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1983
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| Carleton E. Watkins: Photographer of the American West - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Carleton E. Watkins: Photographer of the American West - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
1981
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| Carleton Watkins Photographs - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
1979
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| Carleton Watkins - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
Group shows 61
2012
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| Looking West - Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN |
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| To What Purpose? Photography as Art and Document - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
2011
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| Masters of American Photography - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
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| Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
2010
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| Developed and Undeveloped: Photographic Landscapes - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| Yosemite: Then and Now - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Meister der amerikanischen Landschafts- und Architekturphotographie - Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren |
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| Our National Parks - Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY |
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| The View from Here - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
2009
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| The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Expanding Horizons: Painting and Landscape Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918 - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Paired Photographs - Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN |
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| Hunted And Gathered - MODERNISM, San Francisco, CA |
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| Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| The Mountain Show - Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam |
2008
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| Document or Art? Photography in the Long 19th Century, 1839-1914 - Davison Art Center, Middletown |
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| Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Picturing the West: Masterworks of 19th Century Landscape Photography - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
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| Highlights from the Photography Collection - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| Yosemite's Structure and Textures - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| Visions de l'Ouest - photographies de l'exploration américaine, 1860-1880 - Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny, Giverny |
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| Icons of American Photography - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
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| Yosemite - Art of an American Icon - Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
2006
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| Several Exceptionally Good Recently Aquired Pictures XVIII - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| A rabbit as king of the ghosts - Mitchell-Innes & Nash - West Street, New York City, NY |
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| Current - River Photography from the Monsen Collection - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Treasures on Paper - Alumni Gifts to the Collection - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY |
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| Celebrating the American West: 19th Century Mammoth Plate Photographs - Gitterman Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| 19th Century American Photographs - Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA |
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| Personal Perspectives - Aspects of American Photography - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| Masterworks of American Photography - Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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| Park - Monte Clark Gallery - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
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| American Sublime - Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH |
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| American West: Dust and Dreams - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Photography - Recent Acquisitions - Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
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| Therese Thau Heyman - A Curator's Legacy - Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
2004
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| Therese Thau Heyman - A Curator's Legacy - Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
2003
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| Master Photographers & Master Prints 1840-2000 - Akira Ikeda - Berlin, Berlin |
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| A Decade of Collecting - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| An Eye for Exploration - Photographs from the Jonathan Stein Collection - Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH |
2002
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| Fire & Ice - Treasures from the photographic collection of Frederic Church - Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| Lens Landscapes - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
2001
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| Carleton E. Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge: "California Views" - Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| The Desiring Eye - The Best Pictures of the History of Photography - ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj |
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| Photography and Perception: Exploring the Western Landscape - Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT |
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| Capturing Ligh - Masterpieces of California Photography - 1850-2000 - Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
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| Capturing Light - Masterpieces of California Photography, - Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
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| The American Land - Selections from the Addison Collection - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
2000
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| The West Since Yesterday - Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO |
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| 150 Years of Photography - Davison Art Center, Middletown |
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| Cosmos - From Goya to De Chirico from Friedrich to Kiefer - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| Framed and Shot. Photographs from the Allen Memorial Art Museum - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1999
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| Mapping the West: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photographs from the Boston Public Library - - Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (closed, 2011) |
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| Early Photography / Eight Months Out - Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute - The Clark, Williamstown, MA |
1998
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| The cultured tourist - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY |
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| Ansel Adams and the Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photograph - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
1993
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| Pioniere der Landschaftsfotografie - Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main |
1990
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| Myth of the West - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1981
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| American Landscapes - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 6 |
USA
| | Wach Gallery, Avon Lake, OH
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| | Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Gallery 19/21, Guilford, CT
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| | Gitterman Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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| | Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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Collections 20
USA
| | UNM Art Museum - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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| | Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
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| | Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
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| | The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
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| | The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV
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| | George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
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| | Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
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| | Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
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| | Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN
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| | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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