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Fissure, Steamboat Springs, Nevada
Fissure, Steamboat Springs, Nevada

Fissure, Steamboat Springs, Nevada

Artist Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840 - 1882)
Date1868
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage: 8 3/4 x 11 7/16 inches (22.23 x 29.05 cm)
Mat (exhibition): 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 60.96 cm)
Framed: 23 3/8 × 27 1/2 × 1 5/8 inches (59.37 × 69.85 × 4.13 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2007.21.22
Inscribedverso (in pencil): "Steamboat Springs, Turkey Valley, [illeg.]"
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionForeground takes up 2/3 of the composition; there is a large crack in the Earth, running upper left to lower right.Exhibition History

Timothy H. O’Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs. The Art Institute of Chicago, October 22, 2011 - January 15, 2012, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 7 - September 2, 2012, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT, January 23 - May 26, 2014, no. 42.

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Fissure, Steamboat Springs, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3303
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3327
after conservation, 5/2011
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
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2005.27.3239
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan
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2005.27.3238
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1869
2005.27.3359
after conservation, 5/2011
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
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2005.27.3250
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan
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2005.27.3357
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3306
after conservation, 5/2011
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3304
image overall
Louis Valtat
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2021.16.2
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan
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2005.27.527
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1868
2005.27.3265