Lot 2437: Frederic Samuel Dellenbaugh 1853-1935 Lower Grand Canyon near Kaibab, 1875

Frederic Samuel Dellenbaugh
1853-1935
Lower Grand Canyon near Kaibab, 1875
Signed F.S. Dellenbaugh, inscribed indistinctly ...zona and dated Nov. 1875 (ll)
Oil on canvas laid to board
16 x 14 inches

Frederic Samuel Dellenbaugh''s talents in art and mapmaking led him to join John Wesley Powell on his second exploratory voyage down the Colorado River early in the 1870s. Overshadowed by Powell''s spectacular first voyage down the Colorado and Green rivers, the second expedition was important in that it mapped the great river and provided scientific data invaluable to the understanding of the geology of the Colorado Plateau.