Beaumont Newhall Photographs

Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Beaumont Newhall
1908 - 1993
Photographs

(Washington, D. C.: Lunn Gallery, 1981, an edition of 50 plus 5 lettered artist's proofs), the complete portfolio of 12 gelatin silver prints and one dye-transfer print, each mounted, signed in pencil, the portfolio label, editioned and numbered in pencil, on the reverse; together with the printed title, introduction, and colophon, signed and inscribed 'For Virginia with Love, Beaumont' in ink and editioned 'c' in pencil; gray linen clamshell with printed label
images approximately 10⅞ by 8½ in. (27.6 by 21.6 cm.) or the reverse
portfolio: 18⅜ by 14½ by 1½ in. (46.6 by 36.8 by 3.8 cm.)
Executed 1928-1970, printed in 1981.

Condition Report:
Please note the colors and shades in the online catalogue illustration may vary depending on screen settings.

These prints are in generally excellent condition. Visible under raking light are occasional tiny deposits of the photographer's original retouching and a few superficial scratches that do not appear to break the emulsion.

Catalogue Note:
In Focus: Memoirs of a Life in Photography, pioneering curator, writer, and photographer Beaumont Newhall commented, "It pleases me enormously to see how many people are now professionally involved in photography. The medium really has come of age in the most marvelous way. In the early 1950s my old friend Helmut Gernsheim and I had a pleasant luncheon together in Essen, Germany. Helmut jokingly rapped on the table and said, ‘The Society for the History of Photography will now come to order!’ We two comprised the entire membership! There just wasn’t anybody else in the world at that particular time–and for a long time afterward, I might add–as qualified as we were. And that was not so very long ago.” (p. 254)

The plates in this portfolio are as follows:

1. Chase National Bank, New York, 1928

2. Edward Weston, Carmel, California, 1940

3. Charis Weston's Typewriter, 1940

4. On the Square Rigger, Pacific Queen, Fife Rail, 1940

5. The Plaza Hotel, New York, 1941

6. Nancy Newhall, New York, 1946

7. Henri Cartier-Bresson, New York, 1946

8. Schloss Leopoldskron, Mantelpiece, Salzburg, 1959

9. Paul Strand Shopping, Orgeval, France, 1963

10. Self Portrait at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970

11. Ansel Adams, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1980

12. Street Photographer, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, 1969

Provenance:
Collection of Bernard and Nancy Matus

Acquired from the above by the present owner