Oct 15, 2007 - Sale 2124

Sale 2124 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 13,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
O'SULLIVAN, TIMOTHY (1840-1882)
"Black Canyon, Colorado River, From Camp 8, Looking Above." Albumen print, 8x10 3/4 inches (20.3x27.3 cm.), on the original Wheeler Survey two-toned mount with O'Sullivan's printed credit, title, plate number and the Expedition of 1871 credit on mount recto. Circa 1871
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Laurence Miller Gallery, New York; by agent to C. W. Sahlman.


The Tampa Museum of Art, "At Anchor and Underway: Images from a Tampa Collection," 1992.


T.H. O'Sullivan: Photographer, 23.


O'Sullivan began his career as an apprentice in Matthew Brady's Washington, D.C. studio in the late 1850s. The following decade he assisted Brady and Alexander Gardner during the Civil War, where he perfected the wet collodion process and became both a master of its technique and artistry.


In 1871 Lt. George Wheeler was assigned the responsibility for the United States Geological Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian and was placed in charge of collecting physical descriptions of mineral resources, topography, Native Americans and information pertaining to economy and settlement. One of the first assistants Wheeler hired was O'Sullivan, which greatly satisfied the photographer's interest in adventure.