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ReturnUntitled [Burned Log, Twig and Fern]Inventory number: 5317
Title: Untitled [Burned Log, Twig and Fern]
Date: 1947
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 4⅜ in (11.1 cm) high by 3⅝ in (9.2 cm) wide
Description: Signed in pencil on mount.
Provenance: Estate of Helen Howell.
Illustrated: Comer, Stephanie and Deborah Klochko. The Moment of Seeing: Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts [2006], p. 117; Heick, William, Ira Latour & Cameron Macauley. The Golden Decade: Photography at the California School of Fine Arts, 1945–55, (2016), p. 165.
Price: $2,500
ReturnChinese New Year Parade, San Francisco Inventory number: 2373
Title: Chinese New Year Parade, San Francisco
Date: 1952
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 10⅞ in (27.6 cm) high by 13⅝ in (34.6 cm) wide
Description: Photographer’s stamp and Perceptions exhibition sticker on reverse of mount; flush-mounted.
Provenance: Estate of Nata Piaskowski.
Exhibitions: Perceptions, San Francisco Museum of Art [now SFMOMA] 1954.
Price: $3,000
ReturnNew York CityInventory number: 1531
Title: New York City
Date: 1955
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 915/16 in (25.2 cm) high by 5⅞ in (14.9 cm) wide
Description: Signed in pencil on reverse of the mount.
Price: $2,500
ReturnNew York CityInventory number: 1530
Title: New York City
Date: 1955
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 915/16 in (25.2 cm) high by 5⅞ in (14.9 cm) wide
Description: Signed in pencil on reverse of the mount.
Price: $2,000
ReturnUntitled [New York City]Inventory number: 1551
Title: Untitled [New York City]
Date: 1955
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 10 in (25.4 cm) high by 5⅞ in (14.9 cm) wide
Description: Signed & dated in pencil & ink on reverse of the mount.
Price: $2,000
ReturnMacAllister Street, San FranciscoInventory number: 1519
Title: MacAllister Street, San Francisco
Date: 1949
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 9¾ in (24.8 cm) high by 7½ in (19.1 cm) wide
Description: Signed in pencil on reverse of the mount.
Exhibitions: Perceptions: Bay Area Photography, 1945-1960, Los Angles Valley College, Valley Glen, CA, February-March, 2006
Price: $3,000
ReturnUntitled [Padlock and Hasp, Mendocino City]Inventory number: 2978
Title: Untitled [Padlock and Hasp, Mendocino City]
Date: ca. 1950
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 4⅝ in (11.7 cm) high by 3 in (7.6 cm) wide
Description: Signed “Hollingsworth” in pencil on the mount.
Price: $2,800
ReturnMacAllister Street, San FranciscoInventory number: 1521
Title: MacAllister Street, San Francisco
Date: 1949
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 7⅝ in (19.4 cm) high by 9⅝ in (24.4 cm) wide
Description: Signed in pencil on reverse of the mount.
Price: $2,500
ReturnUntitled [Fireplug and Stuffed Dogs], San FranciscoInventory number: 1534
Title: Untitled [Fireplug and Stuffed Dogs], San Francisco
Date: 1953
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 13⅝ in (34.6 cm) high by 109/16 in (26.8 cm) wide
Description: Signed & dated in pencil with photographer’s stamped name and address on reverse of the mount.
Price: $3,000
ReturnShelter Cove [Boats]Inventory number: 2975
Title: Shelter Cove [Boats]
Date: ca. 1950
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 3⅝ in (9.2 cm) high by 411/16 in (11.9 cm) wide
Description: Signed, “Hollingsworth,” in pencil on the mount with title in pencil on reverse of the mount.
Price: $2,500
ReturnNew York CityInventory number: 1532
Title: New York City
Date: 1955
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 8 in (20.3 cm) high by 10 in (25.4 cm) wide
Description: Signed in pencil on reverse of the mount.
Price: $2,000
ReturnMendocino CityInventory number: 2979
Title: Mendocino City
Date: 1948
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 4⅝ in (11.7 cm) high by 3½ in (8.9 cm) wide
Description: Signed in pencil on the mount; titled, dated, “Jan 25, 1948,” and annotated “Proj. #9 / Door detail of Mrs. Strauss’ home / Many of its residents are pensioned’ in ink, on reverse of the mount.
Price: $2,800
ReturnBob HollingsworthOn his twelfth birthday, Robert Hollingsworth received a Kodak Box Brownie camera as a promotion from a shoe company. This serendipitous gift launched a lifetime in photography. His formal training began as a Navy photographer during World War II and progressed after the war at the California School of Fine Arts. A member of the Professional Photographers of San Francisco, Hollingsworth pursued a career in architectural photography in the United States, Europe and Micronesia.
Exhibitions:Perceptions, San Francisco Museum of Art, California, 1954; Subjektive Fotografie 2, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1954– 1955; Robert Hollingsworth: A West Coast Expressive Photographer, George Eastman House, November 1956; Alumni Exhibitions, San Francisco Art Institute, The Focus Gallery, San Francisco, 1981; Subjektive Fotografie: Images of the 50s, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, 1984-1985.
Selected Collections: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, Missouri; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
Selected Publications: Aperture, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1955; Aperture, Vol 4, No. 2, 1956; Barnaby Conrad, San Francisco: A Profile with Pictures, New York: Bramhall Books, 1959.; Roger Olmsted and T.H. Watkins, Here Today: San Francisco’s Architectural Heritage, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1968. * Solo exhibition;Keith F. Davis, An American Century of Photography From Dry-Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Second Edition,1999; Stephanie Comer & Deborah Klochko, The Moment of Seeing: Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2006.
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