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Auction archive: Lot number 162

Fred R. Archer archive with original signed work

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$1,875
Auction archive: Lot number 162

Fred R. Archer archive with original signed work

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$1,875
Beschreibung:

Archive of original art, photographs, and ephemera. All presented in vintage Water & Power Camera Club portfolio box: 44x53.7x8 cm (17¼x21x3¼"). Includes: Blue & White yearbook archive and student work. Student work from Los Angeles High School. Includes 20 original pen & ink or graphite on paper works (many signed or initialed) from 1908-10 for the yearbook with related ephemera. Highlights include a Halley's comet caricature (Earth had passed through the comet's tail in that year), original yearbook cover art, and a watercolor original for a yearbook advertisement broadside. Graphic design and freelance work. Includes 7 pieces of original art. highlights include original art for Fred R. Archer Advertising and Illustration ad, original drawings for greeting cards, bookplates, magazine covers, etc., several bookplates from Archer designs, picture postcards from Archer designs and assorted ephemera. Some of this material is signed or initialed by Archer. Southern California Camera Club real photo postcards and ephemera. Includes an original pen & ink drawing for a So. Cal Camera Club "Corn Roast and Weenie Bake", original pen & ink for a Southern California Camera Club card, 12 camera club real photo postcards, and ephemera. 3 mat-signed photographs by Archer and Douglas Sly from (or related to) Archer's book Fred Archer on Portraiture. Includes: Blow up print of portrait 174 in the book (Archer); unpublished blow-up print of model in portrait 179 (Archer); "Siegfried" photo 99 in the book (Sly). Also included is non-signed photograph "Bruce" by Douglas Sly, photo 43 in the book. 1 portrait photograph signed on mat by Archer, with 19 unsigned photographs in various sizes and presentations, presumed to be by Archer. 4 erotic photographs by Archer. 5 photographic enlargements measuring approximately 51x39 cm (20x15¼") (unattributed, but presumed to be by Archer). Some mounted. Two signed photographs from the collection of Fred R. Archer: Untitled bromide print of a succulent by Douglas M. Davidson; Sun Bather by John A. [Hatcher?]. Both mounted. "Fred Archer (1889-1963)...was a member of the Los Angeles Camera Club and, in 1914, became a founding member of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. From the mid-1930's through most of the 1940s Archer was director of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles, and he remained the only photographer who was an active member until the club disbanded around 1950. He was a frequent salon exhibitor and lectured at camera clubs throughout the West. He wrote a number of articles and one book, Fred Archer on Portraiture. Archer taught at the Art Center School (now Art Center College of Design) in Pasadena and later ran the Fred Archer School of Photography in Los Angeles." Pictorialism in California, p. 141. Archer is also known for having codified the Zone System in collaboration with Ansel Adams

Auction archive: Lot number 162
Auction:
Datum:
7 Apr 2022
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Archive of original art, photographs, and ephemera. All presented in vintage Water & Power Camera Club portfolio box: 44x53.7x8 cm (17¼x21x3¼"). Includes: Blue & White yearbook archive and student work. Student work from Los Angeles High School. Includes 20 original pen & ink or graphite on paper works (many signed or initialed) from 1908-10 for the yearbook with related ephemera. Highlights include a Halley's comet caricature (Earth had passed through the comet's tail in that year), original yearbook cover art, and a watercolor original for a yearbook advertisement broadside. Graphic design and freelance work. Includes 7 pieces of original art. highlights include original art for Fred R. Archer Advertising and Illustration ad, original drawings for greeting cards, bookplates, magazine covers, etc., several bookplates from Archer designs, picture postcards from Archer designs and assorted ephemera. Some of this material is signed or initialed by Archer. Southern California Camera Club real photo postcards and ephemera. Includes an original pen & ink drawing for a So. Cal Camera Club "Corn Roast and Weenie Bake", original pen & ink for a Southern California Camera Club card, 12 camera club real photo postcards, and ephemera. 3 mat-signed photographs by Archer and Douglas Sly from (or related to) Archer's book Fred Archer on Portraiture. Includes: Blow up print of portrait 174 in the book (Archer); unpublished blow-up print of model in portrait 179 (Archer); "Siegfried" photo 99 in the book (Sly). Also included is non-signed photograph "Bruce" by Douglas Sly, photo 43 in the book. 1 portrait photograph signed on mat by Archer, with 19 unsigned photographs in various sizes and presentations, presumed to be by Archer. 4 erotic photographs by Archer. 5 photographic enlargements measuring approximately 51x39 cm (20x15¼") (unattributed, but presumed to be by Archer). Some mounted. Two signed photographs from the collection of Fred R. Archer: Untitled bromide print of a succulent by Douglas M. Davidson; Sun Bather by John A. [Hatcher?]. Both mounted. "Fred Archer (1889-1963)...was a member of the Los Angeles Camera Club and, in 1914, became a founding member of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. From the mid-1930's through most of the 1940s Archer was director of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles, and he remained the only photographer who was an active member until the club disbanded around 1950. He was a frequent salon exhibitor and lectured at camera clubs throughout the West. He wrote a number of articles and one book, Fred Archer on Portraiture. Archer taught at the Art Center School (now Art Center College of Design) in Pasadena and later ran the Fred Archer School of Photography in Los Angeles." Pictorialism in California, p. 141. Archer is also known for having codified the Zone System in collaboration with Ansel Adams

Auction archive: Lot number 162
Auction:
Datum:
7 Apr 2022
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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