Unusual Formations on the Upper Missouri

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Unusual Formations on the Upper Missouri

Date

August 6, 1833

Dimensions

12 1/2 × 8 1/8 in. (31.8 × 20.6 cm)

Medium

Wash and graphite on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.182

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

This undated view describing an outcropping of strata along the banks of the Missouri is presumed to have been made in the region of the White Castles below the mouth of the Musselshell River. A handwritten notation reads "Quite like a wall erected from squared blocks. The background formation is pale sandstone."

References in Journal

August 6, 1833

Labels:

study , Missouri River , study, geological

Approximate Depicted Location:

White Castles on Missouri below the mouth of the Musselshell River, Montana