Todd Webb (American, 1905–2000)

LOT ID: 76597

Chatham Square (+ 59th Street El Station; 2 works), 1946

Silver Print, gelatin silver print

10.5 х 13.25 in. cm.

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Todd Webb, Chatham Square, New York, 1946. Gelatin silver print, image size is 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches (26.7 x 33.7 cm); sheet size is 11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm). Signed, titled and dated by artist in ink print verso. Printed no later than 1978.

Todd Webb, 59th Street El Station, New York, 1948. Gelatin silver print, image size is 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (33.7 x 26.7 cm). Signed, titled and dated by artist in ink print verso. Printed no later than 1978.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1905, Webb decided to become a full-time photographer after participating in a workshop in Detroit in the 1940's given by the important American photographer Ansel Adams. Adams was impressed with Webb’s work and encouraged him to send examples of it to Alfred Stieglitz, the internationally recognized éminence grise of American photographers and longtime advocate of modern art, whose dedication to the promotion of the work of certain American modernists was well known: Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Paul Strand.

Beginning in the 1940's, Webb’s work was frequently exhibited at institutions such as the Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. More than twenty years after his Guggenheim Fellowships, Webb received a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship in 1979.

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Hastings/Rinhart Galleries, 1978 to a private collector
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Image Area	Central image, focal point of the item/image.

Minor	Existing condition generally does not involve risk of loss
Moderate	Noticeable, increasing in severity and/or size; not serious, but should be monitored or corrected by a conservator
Major	Distinct, recognizable damage; stability of the work is questionable; risk is a factor; requires the attention of a conservator
Extreme	Advanced and severe damage; work is insecure and at great risk

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LOT ID: 76597

Chatham Square (+ 59th Street El Station; 2 works), 1946