Artist: Charles Cromwell Ingham
Date: 1837
Size: 122 x 102 cm
Museum: Adirondack Museum (United States)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
This painting introduced the largest wilderness in the eastern United States to the national consciousness. Travelers and artists first saw it exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1839. Adirondack Pass, also known as Indian Pass, divides the precipitous cliff of Wallface Mountain, towering over a thickly wooded ravine and monstrous boulders, from Mount McIntyre, some five miles southwest of Mount Marcy. The artist joined New York State Geologist Ebenezer Emmons in August 1837 to illustrate the geologic portion of the state's Natural History Survey. After an arduous trek, during which he is reported to have fainted, Ingham executed this painting "on the spot." The John H. Bufford lithograph of it was published in Ebenezer Emmons' widely read New York State Natural History Survey Report of 1838. Thirty years later, Alfred Billings Street referred to the painting and print in his travelogue The Indian Pass: "I wish to bear testimony to the graphic accuracy of the engraving of the loftiest point of the Indian Pass. . . . It is a perfect photograph of the magnificent sight."
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