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Andrew Joseph Russell

Andrew Joseph Russell

Artist

WA-00029223

Printmaking

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None documented

9

Institutional Exhibitions

126

Works in Collection

159

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ4757433 ULAN500028827

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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American Landscapes

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981

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Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981

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Edward Steichen Photography Center

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1964

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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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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

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Three Centuries of American Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1938

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/5091
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Andrew Joseph Russell was an American photographer and painter who worked across documentary and fine art registers during the nineteenth century's transformative period for photographic technology. Based primarily in the eastern United States, Russell produced studio portraiture alongside field documentation, navigating the emerging possibilities of landscape representation in both media. His practice bridges the technical innovations of his era with sustained attention to composition and form.

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

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Art Institute of Chicago The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum of Modern ArtNew York National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (126)

Dial Rock, Red Buttes, Laramie Plains

Dial Rock, Red Buttes, Laramie Plains

1968 · Albumen print, pl. V from the album "Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery" (1870)

Image/paper: 15.3 × 20.4 cm (6 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Album page: 23.3 × 30.4 cm (9 3/16 × 12 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery

Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery

1870 · Album of albumen prints (30)

Album: 31.7 × 25.8 × 5.4 cm (12 1/2 × 10 3/16 × 2 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Plate 50. Great Mormon Tabernacle

Plate 50. Great Mormon Tabernacle

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 21 × 29.5 cm (8 1/4 × 11 5/8 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 49. Brigham Young's Cotton and Woolen Factories

Plate 49. Brigham Young's Cotton and Woolen Factories

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 22.8 × 31.1 cm (9 × 12 1/4 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 46. City Creek Canon, near City Creek Falls

Plate 46. City Creek Canon, near City Creek Falls

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 30.5 × 23.5 cm (12 × 9 1/4 in.) page size: 46 × 32.4 cm (18 1/8 × 12 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 48. Mormon Family, Great Salt Lake Valley

Plate 48. Mormon Family, Great Salt Lake Valley

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 23.2 × 29.5 cm (9 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 47. Residence of Brigham Young

Plate 47. Residence of Brigham Young

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 23.5 × 29.5 cm (9 1/4 × 11 5/8 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 43. Weber Valley, from Willhelmina Pass

Plate 43. Weber Valley, from Willhelmina Pass

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 23.5 × 30.5 cm (9 1/4 × 12 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 45. Salt Lake City, from the Top of the Tabernacle

Plate 45. Salt Lake City, from the Top of the Tabernacle

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 20.6 × 28.3 cm (8 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 44. General Casement's Construction Train

Plate 44. General Casement's Construction Train

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 23.1 × 31.1 cm (9 1/8 × 12 1/4 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 42. Mormon Turnpike Bridge, Mouth of Weber Canon

Plate 42. Mormon Turnpike Bridge, Mouth of Weber Canon

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 22.6 × 30.8 cm (8 7/8 × 12 1/8 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 40. Devil's Gate, Weber Canon

Plate 40. Devil's Gate, Weber Canon

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 × 9 in.) page size: 46 × 32.4 cm (18 1/8 × 12 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 41. Weber Canon, from below Devil's Gate

Plate 41. Weber Canon, from below Devil's Gate

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 21 × 28 cm (8 1/4 × 11 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 37. Willhelmina Pass, from the East

Plate 37. Willhelmina Pass, from the East

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 21.6 × 29.5 cm (8 1/2 × 11 5/8 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 38. Rock Great Eastern

Plate 38. Rock Great Eastern

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 23.5 × 30.5 cm (9 1/4 × 12 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 39. East End of Tunnel, Weber Canon

Plate 39. East End of Tunnel, Weber Canon

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 23.5 × 29.9 cm (9 1/4 × 11 3/4 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 34. Sentinel Rock, Weber Valley

Plate 34. Sentinel Rock, Weber Valley

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 22.8 × 30.5 cm (9 × 12 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 36. Coalville, Weber Valley

Plate 36. Coalville, Weber Valley

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 23.5 × 30.2 cm (9 1/4 × 11 7/8 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 35. Echo City, Looking Up Weber River

Plate 35. Echo City, Looking Up Weber River

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 22.8 × 31.1 cm (9 × 12 1/4 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 31. Monument Rock, Mouth of Echo Canon

Plate 31. Monument Rock, Mouth of Echo Canon

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 × 9 in.) page size: 46 × 32.4 cm (18 1/8 × 12 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 32. Hanging Rock, Foot of Echo Canon

Plate 32. Hanging Rock, Foot of Echo Canon

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 22.9 × 29.6 cm (9 × 11 5/8 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 33. Sphynx of the Valley

Plate 33. Sphynx of the Valley

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 22.6 × 31.1 cm (8 7/8 × 12 1/4 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 29. Bear River City, near the Coal Fields

Plate 29. Bear River City, near the Coal Fields

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 20.6 × 29.2 cm (8 1/8 × 11 1/2 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Plate 30. Looking Down Echo Canon, from Death's Rock

Plate 30. Looking Down Echo Canon, from Death's Rock

1869 · albumen print

image/sheet: 23.5 × 30.5 cm (9 1/4 × 12 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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Artwork sources (6)

126 published of 142 catalogued · 121 with image

Nga
60 published60 img
Art Institute Chicago
34 published34 img
MoMA
16 publishedof 32 catalogued17 img
The Met
12 published6 img
Smithsonian
3 published3 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Effects of a Shell Explosion, Fredericksburg, VA.
1863 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

13 assets

Sphinx of the Valley, from The Great West Illustrated in a Series of Photographic Views across the Continent taken along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad West from Omaha, Nebraska by A.J. Russell, Volume I (1869)

Smithsonian Institution

Ripple Lake, White Pine Cañon, Utah, from the Great West Illustrated In a Series of Photographic Views across the Continent Taken along the Line of the Union Pacific Railroad, West from Omaha, Nebraska, by A. J. Russell. Volume I (1869)

Smithsonian Institution

Weber, from One Thousand Feet Elevation, from the Great West Illustrated in a Series of Photographic Views across the Continent taken along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad West from Omaha, Nebraska, by A.J. Russel, Volume I (1869)

Smithsonian Institution

Effects of a Shell Explosion, Fredericksburg, VA. (1863)

Cleveland Museum of Art

High Bluffs, Black Buttes (1868/69)

Art Institute of Chicago

Citadel Rock, Green River Valley (1868/69)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hydraulic Gold Mining, Near Dutch Flats, California, C. P. R. R. (1868/69)

Art Institute of Chicago

Coal Wharf, Alexandria, Virginia (1863)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum of Modern Art National Gallery of Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

National Gallery of Art