Lot 168
  • 168

Emmet Gowin

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Emmet Gowin
  • SELECTED AERIAL LANDSCAPES
  • two gelatin silver prints
2 toned photographs, comprising Aeration Pond and Snow over Pivot Agriculture, each signed, titled, dated, and annotated in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, label on the reverse, 1989-95, printed later (2)

Literature

Sylvia Wolf, Visions of America:  Photographs from the whitney Museum of American Art, 1940 - 2001 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002), p. 169

Condition

These two photographs are in generally excellent condition. 'Aeration Pond, Toxic Water Treatment Facility, Pine Bluff, Arkansas,' 1989 - In raking light, a few scattered glossy deposits are visible. On the reverse, the following are annotated in pencil: 'CTE page 35; 'Box [illegible];' '5 X 02;' '3 [circled] Sept. 2008;' '+10 +7 ft;' and '[illegible]/WB.' 'EG158.7' is written twice in an unidentified hand in pencil. Based on these annotations, we believe this print was made in 2008. Along the upper edge on the reverse are two linen tape remnants. 'Snow Over Pivot Agriculture, Near Liberal Kansas,' 1995 - The following are annotated in pencil on the reverse: '2 March 99;' '3 1/2 [illegible];' '50 @ 5.6 + 40;' and a sketch of the image. 'EG.325.4' is written in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse. Based on the annotations, we believe this print was made in 1999. These photographs were acquired from Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, in 2002.
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