Gower Gulch, Death Valley

 

Carl Oscar Borg

  1879 - 1947 (biography)

c. 1920  

drypoint 

9 15/16 x 9 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

20 

titled in pencil in lower left corner of the paper; inscribed Edition 20 in lower right corner of the paper 

 

buff wove 

published 

artist 

PMJ295 

SOLD

Carl Oscar Borg attacked the plate with the needle to create this dramatic landscape in drypoint. Working just with the cast shadows he is able to capture the desolation and harshness of the desert at sunset.

Gower Gulch is a small gulch on the eastern side of Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California. It is located in the Black Mountains. Gower Gulch is visible from Zabriskie Point and is about one and a half miles long.

Gower Gulch is named after Harry P. Gower, an official of the Pacific Coast Borax Company and co-owner of the Furnace Creek Inn and Ranch, before Death Valley became a national monument. The gulch contained mines, camps, and roads during the late 19th century and early 20th century.