"Fine Black & White Photographica ... Edition XXXI"
"Fine Black and White Photographica_XXXI" features a photolithographic, restoration sequence by German-American artist Frank Albert Rinehart (February 12, 1861-December 17,1928), after his lush sepia platinum and gelatin silver prints of 1898. Rinehart was commissioned to photograph the Indian Congress held in conjunction with the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition. Tom Southall, former photograph curator at the University of Kansas, Spencer Art Museum, praised the Rinehart collection as follows: "The dramatic beauty of these portraits is especially impressive as a departure from earlier, less sensitive photographs of Native Americans. Instead of being detached, ethnographic records, the Rinehart photographs are portraits of individuals with an emphasis on strength of expression".
Together with his assistant Adolph Muhr, (who would later be employed by the renown Edward S. Curtis), they produced what is now considered "one of the best photographic documentations of Indian leaders at the turn of the century". The collection of Rinehart Indian Photographs is currently preserved at Haskell Indian Nations University. Since 1994, the collection has been organized, preserved, copied and cataloged in a database funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Hallmark Foundation. In tandem with the Rinehart works are 2 scene's from the 1889, Custer's Last Fight Cyclorama, a rarely seen F. Holland Day abstract play on shadows in the portrait of two dignified African American women. Other prominent Native American photographers include Throssel, Curtis and Heyn, plus nature and architectural photographs along with a figurative nude collection.
1899_CHIEF AMERICAN HORSE - SIOUX
1909, NATIVE WOMEN; ROCKY MOUNTAINS
1899_SAUK INDIAN FAMILY PORTRAIT
C. 1897, TREE FLOWER, STILL LIFE
1907, THE MEDICINE MAN (SLOW BULL), BY EDWARD CURTIS
In addition to Rinehart's highly important photograph's "Fine Black & White Photographica_XXXI" also presents significant images by other photographers, along with restorations of many other hard to find photographs of Native Americana, architecture, landscapes and the figurative nude. 'Fine Black & White Photographica_XXXI' is a presentation from the catalogue of ArtFaire.us, in affiliation with Jasper52 on LiveAuctioneers. *(Bidding underway ~ All reserves are published within each Lot's description ~ Installment plans available). Inquiry's can be addressed to [email protected]