Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 8
Jerry PeilSurrealist Doll Composition
About the Item
From the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection
The Ruttenbergs are longtime art lovers who have collected abstract expressionist paintings, African art, sculpture, graphics, old watches and photographs-lots and lots of photographs.
They started collecting them in the 1960s when the medium was still the stepchild of the arts. They kept collecting until they had more than 3,000 prints, 99 of which are in the Art Institute exhibit, ``The Intuitive Eye:
Photographs from the Collection of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg.``
The show encompasses the entire history of photography with black-and-white and color prints from every genre, It includes street photography by Walker Evans and Garry Winogrand, glamour shots by Edward Steichen and Richard Avedon, nudes by Robert Mapplethorpe and Nicholas Muray, painted photographs by Ellen Carey and Holly Roberts, social documentary by Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine, an architectural study by Ansel Adams, portraits by Irving Penn and Arnold Newman and works by dozens of other photographers. Patty Carroll » Henri Cartier-Bresson » Louis Faurer » Ralph Gibson » Luis González Palma » Joseph Jachna » Annie Leibovitz » Irving Penn » Herb Ritts » Sebastião Salgado » Aaron Siskind » Sandy Skoglund » Jerry N. Uelsmann » Roman Vishniac » Andy Warhol » Weegee » William Wegman & others
The exhibit and its title reflect retired attorney David Ruttenberg`s style of collecting-spontaneous, compulsive and straight from the heart. He bought what he liked, new artists along with name artists, choosing on intuition rather than investment potential.
``If I saw that Chuck Close, I would look at it and come back in a few days and look at it again and go home and decide just where it would look best,`` says Sarajean Ruttenberg, nodding at the Close triptych.
He has given large supplies of time and prints to public photography collections, including those of the Art Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. He chairs the acquisitions committee for the Art Institute`s photography department. He is a member of the acquisitions committee at the Museum of Contemporary Photography and of the chancellor`s committee at the University of California, Riverside, which organized an exhibit from his collection last year.
He started his photography collection in 1965 when a client and former student of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy gave him one of Moholy`s famous photomontages, which Ruttenberg hung in his office.
. ``None of our friends had bought the abstract expressionists when we came home with the Jackson Pollock in 1951. Our friends said, `Are you crazy?` ``
The painting by Pollock, then an unknown, was one of the first pieces in their collection. As David Ruttenberg pursued photographs, his collection remained on the cutting edge of the art world with purchases of innovative conceptual and postmodern work along with classic prints.
The only possible things missing are those cosmic Western landscapes. ``I never had a feeling for the landscape,`` David Ruttenberg says. He and Sarajean did, of course, attend Ansel Adams` black-tie 80th birthday party in Carmel, Calif., in 1982.
- Creator:Jerry Peil (American)
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38210880212
About the Seller
4.9
Platinum Seller
These expertly vetted sellers are 1stDibs' most experienced sellers and are rated highest by our customers.
Established in 1995
1stDibs seller since 2014
1,549 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: 1 hour
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Surfside, FL
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 3 days of delivery.
More From This SellerView All
- C Print Color Photo Mississippi Juke Joint Photograph African American AmericanaBy Birney ImesLocated in Surfside, FLBIRNEY IMES, Mississippi, b. 1951 "Riverside Lounge, Shaw, 1986" Dimensions: Chromogenic print, 14" x 16.5" sight. Framed 21" x 25". Birney Imes (born 1951) is an American photographer. He is best known for his photographs of the American South, especially his home state of Mississippi. His work is exhibited in museums across the United States. Birney Imes III was born in 1951 in Columbus, Mississippi. His father, Vinton Birney Imes, Jr., owned the town newspaper, The Commercial Dispatch. His mother is Nancy McClanahan Imes. He attended desegregated public schools in Columbus and graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1973. Growing up white in the South during the Civil Rights Movement helped shape his views on history and that is where his photography career originated from. Imes began photographing after graduation from college and is largely self-taught. In the mid-70s, he worked as a photographer for his family's newspaper in his hometown of Columbus. Later, he opened his own studio above the Princess Theater in Columbus. Along with his personal work, Imes shot commercial work for local clients and took assignments for magazines like Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and Texas Monthly. His work has been printed in both black and white silver gelatin and color photos. Birney Imes’ photography takes viewers inside pool halls, jazz spots, juke joints and dilapidated restaurants scattered across that rural Mississippi landscape. Drawing inspiration from the photographs of other Southern artists...Category
1980s American Realist Color Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper, C Print
- Men Dancing, Migdal Torah, ChicagoBy Jay WolkeLocated in Surfside, FLJay Wolke lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. He has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University, the California Museum of Ph...Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper
- Lacre à SBy Marc Andre CossetteLocated in Surfside, FLAfter completing an MA in Political Studies at Queen’s University, focusing on identity politics and immigration, Cossette served in several public policy roles with the federal gove...Category
20th Century Figurative Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper
- Large Format Vintage Color 20X24 Polaroid "Radiant Child" signed and datedBy Dennis FarberLocated in Surfside, FL30X26 with Mat. (20X24 inch polaroid) From The New York Times: Dennis Farber abducts children from photographic illustrations in children's books of the 30's. He paints Ku Klux Klan costumes on some toddlers at a birthday party, as if he could see their character and future by the light of the birthday candles...Category
1980s Figurative Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper
- Israeli Jewish Prayer Tallit Photogram Op Art Kabbala Photograph Judaica PhotoBy Yakov KaszemacherLocated in Surfside, FLThis one is signed and has the name of the city Meron hand written on it. It is printed on a wove matte paper. Ya'acov Kaszemacher, well-known artist and photographer whose unique im...Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper
- Modern Vintage Color Fujifilm Photograph Jazz Man Photo Small Limited EditionLocated in Surfside, FLColor photograph, 2007, signed, dated and numbered 3 of 25 on the reverse. 14 x 11 in. (sheet), 20 1/7 x 16 1/2 in. (frame). It appears to be signed Laura Cohen or Laura Cohn Taped t...Category
Early 2000s Post-Modern Color Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper, Color
You May Also Like
- MigrationBy Drew TalLocated in New York, NYWith his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Color Photography
MaterialsPlexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
- BlissBy Drew TalLocated in New York, NYWith his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Photography
MaterialsPlexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
- Bud of the BudBy Reka NyariLocated in New York, NY“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story. Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone...Category
2010s Surrealist Black and White Photography
MaterialsArchival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival Pigment, Archiva...
- Untitled (Portrait of Roberta Kimmel Cohn)By Naomi SavageLocated in Fairlawn, OHUntitled (Portrait of Roberta Kimmel Cohn) Silver gelatin print on photographic paper c. 1981 Signed with the photographer's hand stamp verso From a presentation portfolio given the ...Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper
- Man and UniverseLocated in Miami, FLMitchell Funk is the creator of thi work and a pioneer of Sci-Fi Photography. He did an ad campaign for Omni Magazine in the early 1980's. Archival Inkj...Category
1980s Surrealist Color Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper
- Nude man on Endless Surreal RoadBy Mitchell FunkLocated in Miami, FLShot on location Near Taos, New Mexico, 4 of an edition of 15, Signed, dated and number lower right recto, Other sizes available unframed, printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle ...Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Surrealist Photograph
Never Say Never Again
Doll Print
Robert Maplethorpe Art
Famous Lovers
Large Doll
World Dolls
Birthday Party
1982 Watch
Vintage Watch Photography
1965 Watch
Photographs Penn
Black Vintage Dolls Black Vintage Dolls
Vintage Black Dolls
Vintage Doll Black
Brown Cartier Watch
Chicago Watches
1965 Vintage Watch