Overlook Canyonlands, Utah / Canyonland Nat'l Park Summer 1980

 

Charles G. Henningsen

  1935 - 2016 (biography)

1980  

platinum print photograph 

10 7/16 x 12 3/4" image and paper 

pencil, lower right / Studio stamp on verso 

not editioned 

Titled and dated in pencil on verso; Studio stamp on verso: "Chuck Henningsen / 500 Portola Road / Portola Valley, CA 94025 / All Rights Reserved" 

 

photo paper mounted to 4 ply white rag board 

 

artist 

19127 

SOLD

Canyonlands National Park is located in southeastern Utah. Proposals as early as the 1930s for a national monument were criticized. Arches National Park Superintendent Bates Wilson advocated the creation of a national park in the 1950s and early 1960s.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Public Law 88-590 on 12 September 1964 establishing 257,640 acres as Canyonlands National Park. In 1971, Congress expanded Canyonlands to 337,598 acres. The park preserves the colorful landscape that has been eroded into canyons, mesas, arches, and buttes by the Colorado River and its tributaries.

Canyonlands forms the heart of a high or cold desert called the Colorado Plateau. The first humans known to visit Canyonlands were Paleoindians, who searched for large game animals and edible plants as long as 10,000 years ago.

Charles G. Henningsen’s platinum print captures The Maze from the Green River Overlook, which offers a southwest facing view of the plateau deeply carved by the Green River.