1. Artist Unknown, Chinese Spirit with Writing, c. 1920, Gelatin Silver Print, 3.75” x 3
2. Paul Le Boyer (French, 1861–1952), Maquette for Postcard, c. 1910, Gouache with Gelatin Silver Print, 12” x 7.25”
3. Hi Williams (American, 1886-1965), Rubber Dali, 1941, Trichrome Carbro Print, 17” x 13.5”
4. Artist Unknown, Indian Spirit with Writing, c. 1920, Gelatin Silver Print, 3.75” x 3
5. Paul Le Boyer (French, 1861–1952), Maquette for Postcard, c. 1910, Gouache with Gelatin Silver Print, 12” x 7.5”
6. George Platt Lynes (Roberto Rolf) (American, 1907-1955), Surrealist Nude, c. 1935, Gelatin Silver Print, 9.25” x 7.5”
7. Rolf Tietgens (German-American, 1911-1984), Untitled, Gelatin Silver Print, 7” x 5.5”
8. Lajaren Hiller (American, 1880-1969), Paris Plague - 1581, 1934, Gelatin Silver Print, 14” x 11”
9. Rolf Tietgens (German-American, 1911-1984), Untitled, 1939, Gelatin Silver Print, 11.5” x 11”
10. Rolf Tietgens (German-American, 1911-1984), Untitled, c. 1939, Gelatin Silver Print, 9.5” x 8”
11. Carl Van Vechten (American, 1880-1964), Paul Meeres, 1932, Gelatin Silver Print, 9.5” x 5.5”
12. Emery P. Revesz-Biro (Hungarian- American, 1895- 1975), Untitled (Hands), 1938, Gelatin Silver Print, 13.25” x 10”
13. Edward Quigley (American, 1898–1977), Untitled, c. 1939, Gelatin Silver Print, 10’ x 8”
14. Cecil Beaton (British, 1904- 1980), Rosamond Pinchot, c. 1950, Gelatin Silver Print, 10.5” x 8”
15. Herbert Matter (American, 1907-1984), Untitled, c. 1937, Gelatin Silver Print, 10” x 8”
16. Louise Dahl-Wolfe (American, 1895-1989), Surrealist Fashion for Harper's Bazaar, c. 1942, Wash-off Relief Print, 14” x 10.75”
17. Rolf Tietgens (German-American, 1911-1984), Patricia Highsmith, Gelatin Silver Print, 8.5” x 7.5”
18. Fernand Fonssagrives (French, 1910-2003), Hair in Silhouette, c. 1950s, Gelatin Silver Print, 13” x 10”
19. Angus McBean (Welsh, 1904-1990), Marika Rivera, Surrealist Montage, 1948, Gelatin Silver Print, 12” x 9.25”
20. Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980), Model & Flowers (Vogue Magazine Cover), 1949, Gelatin Silver Print, 9.5” x 7.5”
21. George Platt Lynes (American, 1907-1955) Ruth Ford (Hummingbird), 1936, Gelatin Silver Print, 8.5” x 7”
22. Cecil Beaton (British, 1904- 1980), Edward James Gazing at Dali Painting, c. 1937, Gelatin Silver Print, 16” x 11.5”
23. Norman Parkinson (British, 1913-1990), Edward James as Narcissus in a Greek Sheperd Coat, 1939, Gelatin Silver Print, 16” x 11.5”
24. Frederick Kiesler (Austrian-American, 1890- 1965), Interior of Marcel Duchamp’s New York studio, Photographs by Percy Rainford, 1945, Gelatin Silver Print, 14.5” x 9”
25. Eric Schaal (German, 1905-1994), Dali’s “Dreams of Venus” Pavillion at World’s Fair NY, 1939, Gelatin Silver Print, 10” x 8”
26. Eric Schaal (German, 1905-1994), Dali’s “Dreams of Venus” Pavillion at World’s Fair NY, 1939, Gelatin Silver Print, 9.5” x 7.5”
27. Florence Homolka (American, 1911-1962), Max Ernst, c. 1950, Gelatin Silver Print, 13” x 10”
28. Philippe Halsman (American, 1906-1979), Jean Cocteau, “The Blind Poet believes that he is the Emperor of China”, 1949, Gelatin Silver Print, 13.5” x 10.75”
29. Loomis Dean (American, 1917-2005), Man Ray, Gelatin Silver Print, 13.25” x 9”
30. Carl Van Vechten (American, 1880-1964), Leonor Fini, 1936, Gelatin Silver Print, 9.25” x 6”
31. Edward James (British, 1907-1984), Leonor Fini, c. 1948, Gelatin Silver Print, 8.5” x 6.5”
32. PaJaMa - Jared French (American, 1905-1988), George Tooker, Margaret French, and Paul Cadmus, Provincetown, MA, Gelatin Silver Print, 4.25” x 6.25”
33. PaJaMa - Jared French (American, 1905-1988), George Tooker, Margaret French, and Paul Cadmus, Provincetown, MA, Gelatin Silver Print, 6” x 4.5”
34. PaJaMa - Jared French (American, 1905-1988), George Tooker, Margaret French, and Paul Cadmus, Provincetown, MA, Gelatin Silver Print, 6.25” x 4”
35. PaJaMa - Jared French (American, 1905-1988), George Tooker, Margaret French, and Paul Cadmus, Provincetown, MA, Gelatin Silver Print, 6.5” x 4.5”
36. PaJaMa - Jared French (American, 1905-1988), George Tooker, Margaret French, and Paul Cadmus, Provincetown, MA, Gelatin Silver Print, 6” x 4.25”
37. Herbert Matter (American, 1907-1984), La pêche miraculeuse, c. 1930, Gelatin Silver Print, 9” x 6”
38. Rolf Tietgens (German-American, 1911-1984), Desert for Amphibians, c. 1935, Gelatin Silver Print, 8.25” x 7.5”
39. Pierre Adam (French, 1894-?), Untitled, Gelatin Silver Print, 11” x 8.5”
40. George Platt Lynes (American, 1907-1955), Swimsuit Advertising, c. 1950, Gelatin Silver Print, 17” x 13”
41. Mario Perotti (Italian), Untitled, c. 1935, Vintage gelatin silver print, 9 1/2” x 16 3/4”
42. Gordon Coster (American, 1906 - 1988), Experiment in the Reversal of Image, c. 1934, Gelatin Silver Print, 15.5” x 13”
43. NASA, John Glenn Jr. at Cape Canaveral, 1962, Gelatin Silver Print, 7.5” x 9.5”
44. David Attie (American, 1920-1982), Untitled, c. 1970, Chromogenic Print, 13” x 10.5”
45. David Attie (American, 1920- 1982), Untitled (Argosy Magazine), c. 1965, Gelatin Silver Print, 13.5” x 17”
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Surrealism we are pleased to present an exhibition “Out of this World” featuring vintage photographs that honor some of the leading figures of the Surrealist movement along with some lesser-known artists that were contributing to the art of surrealism with surprising images many of which have rarely been exhibited.
The following artists will be represented in the exhibition:
Pierre Adam
David Attie
Cecil Beaton
Gordon Coster
Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Loomis Dean
Fernand Fonssagrives
Philippe Halsman
Lejaren Hiller
Florence Homolka
Edward James
Frederick Kiesler
Paul Le Boyer
Herbert Matter
Angus McBean
NASA
PaJaMa
Norman Parkinson
Mario Perotti
George Platt Lynes
Edward Quigley
Percy Rainford
Emery P. Revesz-Biro
Eric Schaal
Pavel Tchelitchew
Rolf Tietgens
Carl Van Vechten
Hi Williams
The Museum of Modern Art presented its’ landmark exhibition “FANTASTIC ART DADA SURREALISM” in 1936-1937, an ambitious textbook survey documenting the art of that category and its precedents and distillation to other cultural art forms and mediums. The hefty MoMA catalog identifies the genre of art as “The fantastic and the marvelous in European and American Art” and further described this art in terms of “the irrational, the spontaneous, the enigmatic and the dreamlike.”
Surrealism permeated the culture in portrait photography, advertising photography, fashion photography, dance photography and almost any other genre of photography that permitted the artist the leeway to experiment with images that piqued their imagination.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe, one of the foremost fashion photographers of the post World War II era, collaborated with Russian artist Pavel Tchelitchew in the early 1940s to create a wildly imaginative surrealist set for a color-infused fashion layout for Harper’s Bazaar. This dreamy technicolor lit tableau features three soigne models surrounded by drapery, fabric and news papered walls amongst the iconography of a fashion designers’ studio.
Another interior and one of the most important pictures in the exhibition is a diptych photomontage by Frederick Kiesler (photography by Percy Rainford) of the interior of Marcel Duchamp’s 14th Street New York studio festooned with all the detritus that this trailblazing artist could manage to populate his studio with. This image was published in Charles Henri Ford’s 1945 issue of the art magazine View that was dedicated to Marcel Duchamp.
Portrait photographers gravitated to surrealism to create complex and innovative images that went far beyond static portraiture. George Platt Lynes’ portrait of the actress Ruth Ford, (sister of Charles Henri Ford), created a delightful study of the actress who was often referred to as “the hummingbird” by her many artist friends. In Lynes’s image a hummingbird sits on top of Ford’s veil-wrapped visage while three eggs are floating on the upper right margins of the picture frame.
Hi Williams was the go to photographer in the American food industry in the 1930s famous for his mastery of the carbro printing process, an early color printing technique, that was both laborious and expensive to produce. He created a still life photograph of utilitarian rubber items: a toy duck, a gas mask, a ball shoe and glove etc. all sitting on a sandy platform with a painted backdrop featuring blue sky and clouds. If it wasn’t clear that this was an homage, he titled this colorful 1941 photograph “Rubber Dali”.
The exhibition will run through November 15th.
