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Title:
Spanish colonial artsCreator/Contributor:
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984Creator/Contributor:
Applegate, Frank G. (Frank Guy), 1881-1931Creator/Contributor:
Austin, Mary, 1868-1934Creator/Contributor:
Layton, E. E. Wentworth.Abstract:
Chiefly proof photographs intended for illustration of Spanish colonial arts, an unpublished manuscript, depicting a range
of Spanish colonial crafts of New Mexico, including furniture, textiles, sculpture and decorative art -- e.g. chests, tin
craft, blankets and other weavings, doors, tables, beds, chairs, cupboards, embroidery, retablos, and bultos. Also includes
one photograph (on leaf no. 23) by E.E. Wentworth Layton depicting a penitente meeting house with crosses.
Date:
ca. 1930 (issued)Subject:
n-us-nmFolk art -- New Mexico -- Photographs
Furniture, Spanish colonial -- New Mexico -- Photographs
Art, Spanish colonial -- New Mexico -- Photographs
Decorative arts, Spanish colonial -- New Mexico -- Photographs
Art populaire -- Nouveau-Mexique -- Photographies
Meubles coloniaux espagnols -- Nouveau-Mexique -- Photographies
Art colonial espagnol -- Nouveau-Mexique -- Photographies
Arts décoratifs coloniaux espagnols -- Nouveau-Mexique -- Photographies
Art, Spanish colonial
Decorative arts, Spanish colonial
Folk art
Furniture, Spanish colonial
New Mexico
Note:
by Frank Applegate and Mary Austin ; illustrations by Ansel Adams ; and foreword by T.M. Pearce.
Title from typescript label adhered to front cover.
Album lacks text; only includes photographs and captions. A related manuscript by Austin and Applegate with same title is
owned by the Museum of New Mexico.
Additional ms annotation on front cover label: Given to Ina Sizer Cassidy by daugher of Frank Applegate. The publication of
this book will not take place. Decision made some years ago. Material out of date, etc. C.R. Buell.
Most prints are accompanied by typescript caption labels adhered to leaves. Backs of most prints also bear extensive ms captions
in pencil. Captions include references to page numbers of unpublished manuscript.
Photographs mounted on numbered album leaves via corner slits.
Gift ; Of Norma Lumpkins ; 2009.
"Between 1928 and 1930 Adams created photographs for two collaborative projects with Mary Austin. One was the book Taos Pueblo
published in 1930 and the other was the never completed project on Spanish Colonial Arts in the United States. Both projects
came at a very important time in Adams' photographic career as he was making the transition from the fine art photography
known as pictorialism to a more modern vision in photography." (From appraisal of album by book dealer Michael Dawson.) "At
the time [this project] was a pioneering endeavour and would have been the first full-length illustrated study of Hispanic
New Mexican folk art." (From Ansel Adams and Spanish colonial arts, Theresa Salazar, History of Photography, v.22 no.2, 1998.).
Preferred citation: Spanish colonial arts, BANC PIC 2009.062--ffALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
1 album (89 photographic prints) : 31 x 43 cm.
Language:
English