The Condensing Tower
Portrait of Peter Stackpole, Photographer
Selling the News
Untitled [Kelp]
Pavel Tchelitchew [1889-1957] Drawing in His Studio
In the Cemetery of the Old Galeres, Scilly Islands
Rue de la Genesie [Portrait of Natalia LL]
Calaveras [The Original Big Tree]
Diego Rivera [1886-1957]
Arkansas Family. Seven Months in California. Washing Dishes
Untitled [Fireplug and Stuffed Dogs], San Francisco
Untitled [from the Midwest Landscape Series]
San Francisco, California
Plaza, Tepotzotlan
Union Square
Eagle Dance, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico
Yasuo Kuniyoshi [1893-1953] in His New York Studio
Ivan Albright [1897-1983] in His Studio
Untitled Photogram
Labyrinth
Untitled [Abstraction]
Portrait of Martha Flosom Maple with Son Elliott Maple
Barnett Newman [1905-1970]
San Francisco
[Still/Video Performance]
Comme une Piste de Cirque Eclairee par un Projecteur Apparaisse la Vulgaire Bougie de Cuisine avec la Flamme
Claire Falkenstein (at left) with her Paintings
Cacti Oliver’s
Around Larkin Street (...independent working people...)
Furnace Room - Station ‘A’
Jean Cocteau’s Painting Comes to Life
Geothermal Springs / Hot Springs Mountains [Nevada]
Woman with Hen, Tenancingo, Mexico
Chateau Amboise, Sculpture of Chapel Door
Aqueduct Race Track [Couple at the Track]
Marsden Hartley [1877-1943]
Carl Ferdinand Wimar [1828-1863]
William Edmondson
Halloween Beards

William E. Dassonville

· The Condensing Tower · Vintage silver print on ‘Charcoal Black’ paper · ca. 1925

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