Frederick Sommer

mounted, signed, titled, and dated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1973 (The Art of Frederick Sommer, p. 173; Venus, Jupiter & Mars exhibition checklist, pl. 95; Center for Creative Photography, pl. 41)

Acquired by the present owner from Light Gallery, New York, circa 1977-79 

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

Seattle Art Museum, April - May 1980

Tucson, Center for Creative Photography, August - September 1980

Albuquerque, Fine Arts Center, University of New Mexico, October - November 1980

Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, February - March 1981

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, March - May 1981; and

Washington, D. C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, May - July 1981

This photograph, on semi-glossy paper, and mounted to cool white board, is in generally excellent condition.
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As of this writing, the Frederick Sommer Foundation records no more than 7 prints of this image: the present print, 4 in private collections, and prints in The J. Paul Getty Museum and at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson.