Details

Provenance

Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 25 April 2007, Lot 221, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, as agent

Exhibited

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Art of Photography: 150 Years, 1839-1989 , February – April 1989, and traveling thereafter to: Canberra, Australian National Gallery, June – August 1989 London, Royal Academy of Arts, September – December 1989 San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Inaugural Exhibition , March – June 2010 Catalogue note Prints of this image are in several institutional collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth; George Eastman Museum, Rochester; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.

Literature

Photographers Looking At Photographs: 75 Pictures from The Pilara Foundation (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 95 (this print) Mike Weaver, ed., The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989), cat. no. 372 (this print) Robert Adams, Summer Nights (New York, 1985), cover and unpaginated Robert Adams, To Make it Home, Photographs of the American West (New York, 1989), p. 117 Peter Galassi, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1991), p. 98 Susan Ehrens, The Consolidated Freightways, Inc. Collection (Palo Alto, 1998), pp. 122 and 147 Karen Haas, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2011), pl. 114 Sarah Greenough, American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2021), pl. 90

Catalog summary

Robert Adams B. 1937 'Berthoud, Colorado' gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated '1979' and '1988' in pencil and with the photographer's credit/copyright stamp on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1979, printed in 1988 image: 5 by 5 in. (12.7 by 12.7 cm.) frame: 16 by 14½ in. (40.6 by 36.8 cm.) Provenance Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 25 April 2007, Lot 221, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, as agent Literature Photographers Looking At Photographs: 75 Pictures from The Pilara Foundation (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 95 (this print) Mike Weaver, ed., The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989), cat. no. 372 (this print) Robert Adams, Summer Nights (New York, 1985), cover and unpaginated Robert Adams, To Make it Home, Photographs of the American West (New York, 1989), p. 117 Peter Galassi, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1991), p. 98 Susan Ehrens, The Consolidated Freightways, Inc. Collection (Palo Alto, 1998), pp. 122 and 147 Karen Haas, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2011), pl. 114 Sarah Greenough, American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2021), pl. 90 Exhibited Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Art of Photography: 150 Years, 1839-1989 , February – April 1989, and traveling thereafter to: Canberra, Australian National Gallery, June – August 1989 London, Royal Academy of Arts, September – December 1989 San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Inaugural Exhibition , March – June 2010 Catalogue note Prints of this image are in several institutional collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth; George Eastman Museum, Rochester; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.