Lot 78
  • 78

Pirkle Jones B. 1914

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Log in to view results
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pirkle Jones
  • 'PORTFOLIO TWO'
(Mill Valley, California: self-published, 1968, an edition of 110 numbered copies), a portfolio of 12 photographs, each mounted, signed by the photographer and with the portfolio stamp, numbered '68' and sequentially by him, in ink on the reverse, 1947-58, printed in 1968; together with the printed title, dedication numbered '68' by the photographer in ink, introduction by Ansel Adams, and plate list.  Folio, gilt-lettered linen clamshell box, no. 68 in a total edition of 110 (Pirkle Jones, pp. 8-9, 22-23, 33, 89, 94, 96)

Catalogue Note

The plates are as follows:

Breaking Wave, Golden Gate, San Francisco, 1952

Log and Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 1952

View of San Francisco in the Rain, 1952

Woman with Umbrella, San Francisco, 1955

Sunset District and Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, 1951

Figures in the Rain, San Francisco, 1955

Worker, Saratoga, California, 1958

Grape Picker, Berryessa Valley, California, 1956

Oak Tree and Rock, Black Hawk Ranch, California, 1954

Cowboy, Arizona, 1957

Landscape, Jackson, California, 1948

Garden Detail, San Francisco, 1947