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Artworks in Arcadja
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Some works of Donald Ross
Extracted between 13 works in the catalog of Arcadja
Donald Ross - Man At Window
Original 1952
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Donald Ross, Man at Window, Vintage Photograph DC03
Description
Vintage gelatin silver print, photographer's stamp on reverse.
As part of the due diligence process, the seller has arranged for the buyer to receive at no additional cost an art title insurance policy (ATPI®) issued by ARIS Title Insurance Corporation.
Donald Ross began a career in advertising photography with the J. Walter Thompson Agency in 1935. In 1952 he retired from advertising to devote the next forty-five years of his life to his personal photography while supporting himself and his family by designing and constructing houses. Ross used an 8x10 camera, frequently working alongside close friends Edward and Brett Weston. Known for the superb quality of his prints, Ross participated in over thirty solo and group exhibitions between 1948 and 1991. Beginning in 1978 five portfolios of his photographs were published. In the Introduction to Portfolio Four, Dody Weston Thompson called Ross “… one of those who not only look, but see. Aphorist, realist, individualist, and craftsman, he has gone quietly along being his own man, a photographer’’s photographer. Like all artists worth their eyes, he worked until he got it simple. Then he worked.” Education: University of Texas, 1930–1934; California School of Fine Arts, 1946.Selected Exhibitions: San Francisco Museum of Art 1948*; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1953*; American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Boston, 1953*; Perceptions, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1954; Creative Photography 1956, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington, KY; Photography U.S.A.: National Invitational Photography Exhibition, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1962; Photography U.S.A., De Cordova Museum, 1969; Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, 1980*; The Monterey Photographic Tradition: The Weston Years, Monterey Peninsula Museum, Monterey, CA, 1986; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2007.Text credit: The website of Paul Hertzman Inc.
The photographs in lots 1 - 59 come from the collection of Dody Weston Thompson. Thompson's engagement with West Coast photography began in 1946, when she introduced herself to Edward Weston after seeing an exhibition of his work in San Francisco. Soon after, Weston took her on as his assistant and taught her the technical basics of photography. She became an increasingly important presence in the Weston household, and in 1948 she moved from San Francisco to a building on Weston's property at Wildcat Hill. As she honed her own abilities as a photographer, she assisted Weston in the darkroom and spotted his photographs. Here skills were such that Ansel Adams hired her as an assistant for a photographic trip to Yosemite in 1948. Dody was instrumental in the production of Weston's Fiftieth Anniversary portfolio, and was also involved in the printing of the Project Prints.
In 1952, Dody married Edward Weston's son, Brett with whom she traveled and photographed extensively before their divorce in 1956.She accompanied Brett to White Sands, NM, where they photographed and Brett produced the images ultimately published in his White Sands portfolio. Through Adams's auspices, both Dody and Brett were sponsored by the Polaroid Corporation's Artist Support Program. In 1953 Dody won the Alfred M. Bender Award for her photographic work. Her photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Chicago Institute of Design, the George Eastman House, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many other venues.
Born Dora Harrison in Louisiana in 1923, Dody, as she was nicknamed, was first introduced to photography by Clarence John Laughlin. As a teenager, Dody served as both model and equipment mule for Laughlin, a friend of Dody's mother. Interested in literature and acting, she enrolled at Tulane University in New Orleans, then transferred to the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. An early marriage in the last years of World War II led to a move to San Francisco, where she worked as a writer and researcher for the West Coast Office of War Information, and also as a riveter at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, CA. It was in San Francisco that she first became aware of photography's potential as a creative tool.
Edward Weston came to appreciate Dody's skills as a writer, and asked her to write the preface to his book of photographs, My Camera on Point Lobos (1950). Dody was a founder, along with Adams, Minor White, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, and others, of the groundbreaking photographic journal, Aperture. Her biographical sketch of Edward Weston is collected in Edward Weston Omnibus (Salt Lake City, 1984), and offers a heartfelt but clear-eyed portrait of the photographer.
Text credit: Sotheby's Photographs Department, New York
Directly from the archive of Dody Weston Thompson.
10 x 8"
The photograph is in excellent condition. Please contact us regarding specific questions or condition report.
Donald Ross - Suchixtepec
Original 1954
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Donald Ross,
Suchixtepec,
State of Oaxaca,
Mexico,
1954,
Vintage Photograph D2DW
Description
Vintage gelatin silver print,
signed and dated on the border of the mount,
photographer's label affixed to the reverse of the mount.
As part of the due diligence process,
the seller has arranged for the buyer to receive at no additional cost an art title insurance policy (ATPI®) issued by ARIS Title Insurance Corporation.
Directly from the artist to Dody Weston Thompson.
7 1/2 x 9 1/2" photograph on 13 1/2 x 15" mount.
Condition
The photograph is in excellent condition. Please feel free to contact us regarding specific questions or condition report.
Donald Ross - Broken Glass
Original 1947
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Donald Ross,
Broken Glass,
1947,
Vintage Photograph D2DW
Description
Vintage gelatin silver print,
signed,
dated in pencil on the border of mount,
photographer's label affixed to the reverse of mount.
As part of the due diligence process,
the seller has arranged for the buyer to receive at no additional cost an art title insurance policy (ATPI®) issued by ARIS Title Insurance Corporation.
Provenance
Directly from the artist to Dody Weston Thompson.
Measurements
7 1/2 x 9 1/2" photograph on 13 1/2 x 15" mount.
Condition
The photograph is in excellent condition. Please feel free to contact us regarding specific questions or condition report.
Donald Ross - L And G 1
Original 1948
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Donald Ross,
L and G 1,
1948,
Vintage Photograph D2DW
Description
Vintage gelatin silver print,
titled,
dated in ink with photographer's stamp on reverse.
As part of the due diligence process,
the seller has arranged for the buyer to receive at no additional cost an art title insurance policy (ATPI®) issued by ARIS Title Insurance Corporation.
Directly from the artist to Dody Weston Thompson.
8 x 10"
Condition
The photograph is in excellent condition. Please feel free to contact us regarding specific questions or condition report.
Donald Ross - Amargosa Desert
Original 1948
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Donald Ross,
Amargosa Desert,
1948,
Vintage Photograph D2DW
Description
Vintage gelatin silver print,
titled,
dated,
annotated in pencil with the photographers stamp on the reverse.
As part of the due diligence process,
the seller has arranged for the buyer to receive at no additional cost an art title insurance policy (ATPI®) issued by ARIS Title Insurance Corporation.
Provenance
Directly from the artist to Dody Weston Thompson.
Measurements
8 x 10"
Condition
The photograph is in excellent condition. Please feel free to contact us regarding specific questions or condition report.