On Desert Time

Landscape Photographs by O’Sullivan & Bell, 1871–1874

Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, N. M. In a Niche 50 Feet above Present Cañon Bed., 1873. Albumen silver print. Denver Art Museum Collection: The Daniel Wolf Landscape Photography Collection, 1991.483.48

Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Black Cañon, Colorado River, Looking Below from Big Horn Camp, 1871. Albumen silver print. Denver Art Museum Collection: The Daniel Wolf Landscape Photography Collection, 1991.483.4

Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest. South Side of Inscription Rock, N. M., 1873. Albumen silver print. Denver Art Museum Collection: The Daniel Wolf Landscape Photography Collection, 1991.483.39

Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Water Rhyolites, Near Logan Springs, Nevada, 1871. Albumen silver print. Denver Art Museum Collection: The Daniel Wolf Landscape Photography Collection, 1991.483.13

William H. Bell, Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking South, 1872. Albumen silver print. Denver Art Museum Collection: The Daniel Wolf Landscape Photography Collection, 1991.483.17

William H. Bell, Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking North, 1872. Albumen silver print. Denver Art Museum Collection: The Daniel Wolf Landscape Photography Collection, 1991.483.18

William H. Bell, Grand Cañon, Colorado River, near Paria Creek, Looking West, 1872. Albumen silver print. Denver Art Museum Collection: The Daniel Wolf Landscape Photography Collection, 1991.483.23

The Daniel Wolf Landscape Photography Collection was acquired with funds from Mr. and Mrs. George G. Anderman, Nancy L. Benson, Florence R. and Ralph L. Burgess Trust, 1990 Collectors' Choice, J. Rathbone Falck, General Service Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. William D. Hewit, Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Leede, Pauline A. and George R. Morrison Trust, Frederick and Jan Mayer, Newmont Mining Corporation, O'Shaughnessy Fund, Volunteer Endowment Fund, Ginny Williams, Estelle Wolf, anonymous donors, and the generosity of our visitors, with additional support from the voters who created the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).