The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Canon of Kanab Wash, Looking South, Colorado River
1872
(American, 1830–1910)
Image: 35.5 x 27.8 cm (14 x 10 15/16 in.); Paper: 50.5 x 40.6 cm (19 7/8 x 16 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Kanab is an anglicization of the Southern Paiute word for “willow.”Description
William H. Bell was the staff photographer for the government-sponsored Wheeler expedition of 1871–73, whose mission was to survey and produce topographic maps of the Southwestern United States. In 1872, he recorded rivers, canyons, and landscapes in Arizona and Utah including Kanab Creek canyon in the Grand Canyon. For a westward view of the same location, see Bell’s Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West (1997.130).- ?-2021William S. and Margaret Lipscomb, Shaker Heights, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHDecember 6, 2021The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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