Artwork of the Week!! Sun, Dec 19, 2021, is by Chuck Henningsen (1935-2016), "Melting Snow & Ice - Aspen, Colorado 1981", platinum print, $1,800.00.

Artwork of the Week!! Sunday, December 19, 2021, is by American photographer Chuck Henningsen (1935-2016). Another in a series of images from inventory as we approach the holiday season, a time for giving and considering others as we celebrate together as families and friends and anticipate a new year.

"Melting Snow & Ice - Aspen, Colorado 1981" is a platinum print, a photograph, done in 1981 by California photographer Charles G. "Chuck" Henningsen (1935-2016). The image measures 18-1/4 x 14-7/16 inches. This work is signed and dated by the artist on the verso of the mount and has the photographer's studio stamp on the verso: "Chuck Henningsen / 500 Portola Road / Portola Valley, CA 94025 / All Rights Reserved". It was printed by the artist on a photo paper that is mounted to a 4 ply white rag mat board that measures 28 x 22". Our inventory number for this photograph is 19132.

This scarce platinum print by Charles G. "Chuck" Henningsen (1935-2016) is available from the gallery for $1,800.00.

A platinum print, a photograph, of a snowy mountainside in Aspen, Colorado. Photographer Chuck Henningsen did this in 1981, looking from another mountain into the valley below. There is no evidence of any human activity, just quiet abstraction, created by nature and captured by film.

In the mid-1970s Hennigsen met and studied with photographer Ansel Adams and, because of his financial situation (he was an early engineer with Hewlett-Packard) he was able to establish his lab to print platinum prints, which he did on occasion for Adams.

After a business partner's death, Chuck Henningsen and his remaining partner decided to sell the electronics business they had started after leaving H-P. It was the 1980s and Henningsen walked away a very happy man. "We were just luckier than hell," he says. "We got away with more money than we should have."

From that point, Henningsen was hooked on photography. Under Adams's tutelage, he quickly developed a professional's eye for the highest quality of the image that was then possible.

Henningsen moved to Taos, New Mexico where he built a specially designed lab/studio/gallery. Again, because of his unique financial situation, Henningsen was able to equip his photo lab with the best equipment and materials and he became an expert in printing platinum prints, which he did both for himself and working with other photographers to print using the platinum method.

To purchase this work, see other works, or read a biography for Charles G. Henningsen use this link to our website: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/artist/3807/Henningsen/Charles

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