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William Henry Jackson

William Henry Jackson

American, 1843

WA-00027737

Printmaking

Representation

None documented

12

Institutional Exhibitions

45

Works in Collection

93

Assets Indexed

3

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Publications Referenced

80%

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ1971889 ULAN500030913

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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American Landscapes

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981

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Photography for Collectors

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976

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Photography: Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1973

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Edward Steichen Photography Center

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1964

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The Photographer and the American Landscape

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1963

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1962

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30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1959

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Photographs from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1958–1959

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70 Photographers Look at New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1957–1958

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1948

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Photography

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1944

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Photographs of the Civil War and the American Frontier

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1942

Field Verification (3 fields)

3 cross-verified · 0 single-source

BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%✓

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/2863
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

William Henry Jackson was an American photographer and painter known for his large-format landscape documentation of the American West during the second half of the nineteenth century. Working primarily with wet-collodion and gelatin dry-plate processes, Jackson produced thousands of photographs that established the visual vocabulary of western exploration and geology. His work with the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories shaped both scientific and popular understanding of landscapes from the Rocky Mountains to the Grand Canyon. Jackson lived to 99, continuing to paint and write well into the twentieth century.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York Rijksmuseum Cleveland Museum of Art National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (45)

Echo Cliffs, Grand River Canyon

1900 · photochrome

Image: 26.7 x 52.7 cm (10 1/2 x 20 3/4 in.); Matted: 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Mirror Lake and Lake Placid, New York

1900 · Gelatin silver print

17 1/4 × 75 5/8" (43.8 × 192.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mouth of Patterson's Creek, Main Line, B & O Railroad

Mouth of Patterson's Creek, Main Line, B & O Railroad

1892 · Albumen print

Image/paper: 43.8 × 53.8 cm (17 1/4 × 21 3/16 in.); Mount: 53.9 × 67.3 cm (21 1/4 × 26 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Rocky Mountains, Scenes Along the Line of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway

The Rocky Mountains, Scenes Along the Line of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway

1890 · Albumen print

Image: 33.5 × 50.5 cm (13 1/4 × 19 15/16 in.); Paper: 42.8 × 54 cm (16 7/8 × 21 5/16 in.); Mount: 63.5 × 76.1 cm (25 × 30 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Del Monte Hotel, California

1888 · Albumen silver print

17 × 73 5/8" (43.2 × 187 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Querétaro, Mexico

1884 · Albumen silver print

16 7/8 × 21 5/16" (42.9 × 54.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Diamond River Canyon

1880 · Albumen silver print

21 × 17" (53.3 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Bee Hive Group of Geysers, Yellowstone Park

1880 · Gelatin silver print

9 9/16 × 13 1/8" (24.3 × 33.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Basaltic Cañon, Foot of Tower Creek

Basaltic Cañon, Foot of Tower Creek

1879 · Albumen print, stereo

Each image: 9.3 × 7.6 cm (3 11/16 × 3 in.); Card: 10 × 17.8 cm (3 15/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cheyenne Falls

1879 · Albumen print, stereo

Each image: 9.4 × 7.7 cm (3 3/4 × 3 1/16 in.); Card: 10 × 17.8 cm (3 15/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Royal Gorge

The Royal Gorge

1879 · Albumen print, stereo

Each image: 9.3 × 7.5 cm (3 11/16 × 3 in.); Card: 10.1 × 17.6 cm (4 × 6 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Badlands of Wyoming

Badlands of Wyoming

1879 · Albumen print, stereo

Each image: 9.4 × 7.5 cm (3 3/4 × 3 in.); Card: 10 × 17.7 cm (3 15/16 × 7 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Central City, Colorado

Central City, Colorado

1876 · albumen print

image: 43.5 x 54.5 cm (17 1/8 x 21 7/16 in.) mount: 48.5 x 59 cm (19 1/8 x 23 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

1875 · Albumen silver print

4 3/8 × 7 5/8" (11.1 × 19.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

House of the Captain of Shung-A-Pah-Wee

1875 · Albumen silver print

4 3/8 × 7 5/8" (11.1 × 19.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mogui (or Qualpi)

1875 · Albumen silver print

4 3/8 × 7 5/8" (11.1 × 19.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1875 · Albumen silver print

4 3/8 × 7 5/8" (11.1 × 19.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mammoth Hot Springs, North from Upper Basins

1875 · Albumen silver print

4 7/16 × 7 1/2" (11.2 × 19.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Upper Twin Lake, Colorado

Upper Twin Lake, Colorado

1875 · Albumen silver print

17 × 21" (43.2 × 53.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Looking North from the Mouth of the Blue, Middle Park

1874 · Albumen silver print

4 3/8 × 7 5/8" (11.1 × 19.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Garden of the Gods, Colorado

1874 · Albumen silver print from a glass-plate negative

12 9/16 × 9 15/16" (32 × 25.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pikes Peak from the Garden of the Gods, Colorado

Pikes Peak from the Garden of the Gods, Colorado

1874 · Albumen silver print from a glass-plate negative

9 13/16 × 13 3/16" (25 × 33.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mountain of the Holy Cross

1873 · Albumen silver print

4 7/16 × 7 5/8" (11.2 × 19.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mystic Lake, M.T.

1872 · albumen print from wet collodion negative

Image: 23.3 x 50.7 cm (9 3/16 x 19 15/16 in.); Mounted: 40.6 x 31.5 cm (16 x 12 3/8 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (5)

45 published of 72 catalogued · 29 with image

MoMA
27 publishedof 54 catalogued14 img
Art Institute Chicago
10 published10 img
Rijksmuseum
3 published3 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
3 published
Nga
2 published2 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 5)

5 entries · 1 sources

Gebouwen en schoorsteenpijpen van een smelterij in Noord-Amerika
1860 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Mystic Lake, M.T.
1872 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Currecanti Needle, Black Cañon of the Gunnison
1870 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Echo Cliffs, Grand River Canyon
1900 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Across the Royal Gorge
1860 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Record

Images

16 assets

Gezicht op een voormalig hotel gezien vanuit Jupiter Terrace in Yellowstone National Park (1902)

Rijksmuseum

Gezicht op Mount of the Holy Cross in de Rocky Mountains (c. 1860 - c. 1900)

Rijksmuseum

Three Men at Shoshone Falls (figure at left is possibly photographer William Henry Jackson) (c. 1877)

Smithsonian Institution

William Henry Jackson (January 2, 1873)

Smithsonian Institution

William Henry Jackson (1872)

Smithsonian Institution

William Henry Jackson (c. 1885)

Smithsonian Institution

Basaltic Cañon, Foot of Tower Creek (1879/92)

Art Institute of Chicago

Quarrying Granite for Mormon Temple, No. 119 from the series "Views in the Rocky Mountains" (1870/78)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Rijksmuseum Cleveland Museum of Art National Gallery of Art

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Representation & Collections

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Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Rijksmuseum

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

National Gallery of Art