Hell's Half Acre, Prismatic Springs
1884
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1884
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Hell's Half Acre, Prismatic Springs is a 1884 by Frank Jay Haynes, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This photo shows a steaming hot spring in Yellowstone. Steam rises from Prismatic Springs. A tiny person stands near the water for scale. Haynes worked as Yellowstone's official photographer in the 1880s. His images helped people imagine the West before roads and crowds. This shot makes the land feel vast and wild. Check out more by Frank Jay Haynes (American, 1853–1921).
Frank Jay Haynes was a photographer of life in the American West and the early days of Yellowstone National Park. Arriving in Yellowstone in the 1880s, he accompanied expeditions into the park, serving as official photographer. From canyon bottoms to mountain peaks, Haynes took his cameras to locations where he could capture unique and artistic views. In this photograph, he documented the immense space of the landscape, made particularly apparent by the inclusion of a small figure standing on the cliff at the right.
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Frank Jay Haynes (1853–1921) was an American artist.
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