Frederick Sommer

mounted, signed and titled in pencil on the reverse, 1950, printed no later than 1971

Acquired from the photographer, 1971

Long Beach, The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Frederick Sommer at Seventy-Five: A Retrospective, February - March 1980; and traveling to 8 other venues through 1981

Carmel, Friends of Photography, The Contact Print, 1946-1982, November - January 1983

Carmel, Center for Photographic Art, The Elegant Kinship of Constellations: Photographs, Collages, and Drawings, September - October 1995

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Frederick Sommer: Photographs and Collages, March - June 1999

This print:

Leland Rice, ed., Frederick Sommer at Seventy-Five: A Retrospective (Long Beach, 1980), p. 6 

James Alinder, The Contact Print, 1946-1982 (Friends of Photography, 1982), p. 26

Other prints of this image:

John Weiss, ed., Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer (Wilmington, 1980), fig. 42

Sommer - Images (Tucson, 1984), p. 37

Frederick Sommer: The Box (Tucson and Munich, 1994), unpaginated

The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage (Prescott and New Haven, 2005), p. 67

This lustrous print is in generally excellent condition.
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