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Robert Adams

'Overlooking Long Beach, California' (On Signal Hill)

Auction Closed

May 2, 05:08 PM GTNN

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Adams

B. 1937

'Overlooking Long Beach, California' (On Signal Hill)


gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated, annotated, and editioned '19/30' in pencil on the reverse, 1983, no. 19 in an unrealized edition of 30

image: 14⅝ by 18¾ in. (37.1 by 47.6 cm.)

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2004
To Make it Home, Photographs of the American West (New York, 1989), p. 125

California (San Francisco, 2000), pl. 52

Robert Adams, What Can We Believe Where? Photographs of the American West (New Haven, 2010), p. 77

Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs 1964-2009, (New Haven, 2011), vol. 2, p. 7

The Altering Eye: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2015), pl. 206

Los Angeles Spring (Göttingen, 2020), slipcase cover and p. 12

Sarah Greenough, American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2021), p. 129

Only 19 photographs out of the projected edition of 30 were printed in the large 16 by 20 inch format. Prints of this image are in the collects ions of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., gift of Mary and Dan Solomon.