Paul Strand (American, 1890-1976). University of California, Berkeley, Set of 10 Photographs, 1915. Hand-colored platinu...

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Paul Strand (American, 1890-1976)
University of California, Berkeley, Set of 10 Photographs, 1915
Hand-colored platinum
7 x 9-1/4 inches (17.8 x 23.5 cm)
Each signed and titled in pencil, lower mount recto. In period brown folder with cloth ties.

Titles include: Library- California; California Hall-California; Hearst Memorial Mining Building - California; Phi Kappa Sigma - California; Phi Gamma Delta - California; Phi Delta Theta - California; Beta Theta Pi - California; Chi Psi -California; Zeta Psi - California; and Alpha Tau Omega - California.
In the spring of 1915 Strand took a cross-country trip photographing college and university campus buildings along the way which he then sold for $2.50 a print. By May 3rd he was in San Francisco and probably took these views of Berkeley at that time.

PROVENANCE:
Purchased from the artist by a student at the University of California, Berkeley, 1915 and by descent to the current owner.

LITERATURE:
Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs, Aperture, New York, 1976, page 143.


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