View of the Bluffs Near Cedar Island

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

View of the Bluffs Near Cedar Island

Date

May 19-21, 1833

Dimensions

10 1/8 × 16 3/4 in. (25.7 × 42.5 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.161

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

Near Cedar Island on May 16, high winds and low water again delayed the steamer's progress upstream. At this place Maximilian reckoned that the Yellow Stone had traveled a little over a thousand miles from the mouth of the Missouri above St. Louis. The ship remained stationary through May 21 above Cedar Island on a section of the Missouri now permanently flooded by the Fort Randall Dam at Pickstown, South Dakota. Bodmer's view of the river bluffs in this vicinity was made between May 19 and 21 according to an inscription that may have been added later.

References in Journal

May 16, 1833

Labels:

genre, riverscape , Missouri River

Approximate Depicted Location:

Pickstown, South Dakota