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Michael Mardikes Benton walking dog (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #6) Year: 1956, 2021 Pigment Ink on Archival Paper Photograph Image Size: 19x13.5 in Paper Size: 22x17 in Edition: Unique Monogrammed by hand Label signed and numbered by Estate Representative COA provided by Authorizing Body Additional COA provided by representing Gallery Ref.: 924802-908 Image included in the exhibition An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Public Library (November 20, 2021-May 15, 2022) One night in late 2020, as Nick Vedros was leaving the home of his Aunt Myrt and Uncle Michael Mardikes, his aunt suddenly asked him, “What are we going to do with all the negatives?” The noted Kansas City photographer was not sure what his 89-year-old aunt was talking about, until she handed him a notebook filled with more than 1000 negatives chronicling Thomas Hart Benton at home and in his studio. They had been filed away for almost seven decades. This startling discovery was the inspiration for the exhibition, “An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton” on view at the Kansas City Public Library Central Library. The exhibition is a must-see, not just for fans of Thomas Hart Benton but for devotees of exemplary photojournalism. Of the 1,080 photographs Mardikes took, only four had been published in an article he wrote for “This Month in Kansas City” magazine in 1966. The others were never printed, nor was their existence common knowledge. Although Vedros had been aware of his uncle’s assignment with Benton, he was stunned to discover that so much additional material existed. Vedros, who decided at age 12 to become a photographer himself after seeing his uncle’s work, was determined to organize an exhibition, and was especially interested in doing it as quickly as possible given his uncle’s advanced age and increasing frailty. Collaborating with Dan White, a photographer, master printer and friend since their time together at the University of Missouri journalism school, they selected 34 images to be printed and framed, researching the details with Steve Sitton, the director of the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio Historic Site. Michael Mardikes had had a brief career as a commercial photographer before going on to work in management at the Ford Motor Company and later at UMKC. He made the acquaintance of Benton through Eugene Pyle, a former student of Benton’s and Mardikes’ photography instructor at the Art Institute. In 1955, Benton asked Mardikes to photograph him; Mardikes visited Benton 35 to 40 times, over a period of a few months in late 1955 and early 1956. Sitton told Vedros that not only was Mardikes’ amount of access incredible, but that the resulting body of work was unmatched. As the project progressed, Benton became focused on a mural commission for the River Club in 1956. Henry Adams, preeminent Benton scholar and former curator at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, provided some context for this particular work: “The commission to paint ‘Traders at Westport Landing’ came at a low point in Benton’s career, 1956, and initiated the late phase of Benton’s mural paintings. It was the first of a series of murals depicting the exploration and settlement of the west, which culminated in the Truman Library mural, which was completed in 1962. All these murals feature trading and friendly contact with the Indians, rather than conflict, and are arresting in their bright color and meticulous rendering of carefully researched detail. The River Club, which commissioned ‘Traders at Westport Landing,’ overlooks the Missouri River and has a panoramic view very similar to the one in Benton’s painting.” This group of black and white photos not only documents the artist’s working process but also reveals other aspects of his daily life: one memorable image reveals Rita Benton massaging her husband’s stiff shoulders after a long day in his studio. Other images show members of the River Club board visiting Benton’s studio to check on the progress of the mural. One charming image captures a candid moment of Rita Benton and Myrt Mardikes as they collaborated in the Benton kitchen making chicken kapama for their husbands. Nan Chisholm Nan Chisholm is an art consultant and appraiser of 19th- and 20th-century paintings. After a long association with Sotheby’s, she founded her own business in 2003. She has appeared as a fine art appraiser...

Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...

Angie Jennings Mystery Woods - Mailbox Archival Pigment Print Year: 2024 Visible Size: 7 x 9 inches Framed: 12 x 15 x 1 inches Signed: On Label COA provided *Black frame with standa...

Title: "Passage II" Medium: Custom Archival Pigment Print on Archival Paper Date: 2019 Dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Signed, dated and inscribed on label COA provi...

Archival pigment print Signed, titled, and dated, verso (Edition of 5) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. About the artist: Chris Ironside is a Toront...

Vatican Post is one of the best photo realized by the italian artist Carlo Caboni in 2020. Always passionate about landscapes and photography, the artist then devoted himself to lan...

Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist Stones at low tide on the beach in Normandy. They look like skulls that have been picked up. JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world...

'Chateau Saint-Martin' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print An outdoor luncheon by the swimming pool of the Chateau Saint-Martin, a luxury hotel in Vence on the Cote d'Azu...

Edition of 10. Fujicolour / DMEL: professional photo paper (from Kodak).

Patty deGrandpre’s “Show’s about Nature / Small Point 1” is a unique abstract 7.5 x 7.5 inch inkjet print on 11 x 11 inch photo paper with a suggested dou...

Archival pigment print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso 20 x 24 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 36 inches (Edition of 5) 40 x 48 inches (Edition of 5) This artwork is offer...

Selfie, Florence Italy. 2022 I love old photo booths. The real photo booths. Photo booths that take real photos that have to ...

'Elves are small—only 36 inches high at most...' (Iceland) Edition 2/10, 20x20cm, 2018, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate...

Untitled (Cowboys and Angels), 2005 50x39cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. artist Inventory No. 91...

Untitled (Cowboys and Angels), 2005 100x75cm, Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. artist Inventory No. 91...

We acquired a series of photographs from Rosemary Ellis's studio. To find more from this series scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller...

From a series of similar photographs, to view the others scroll down to 'more from this seller'. Rosemary Ellis Windows V Original proof photograph for Windows in the Outlooks and I...

Linda Connor's imagery of ancient and sacred places explores the relationship between nature, civilization and spirituality. Appropriately, her subject matter is often in spiritual c...

Linda Connor's imagery of ancient and sacred places explores the relationship between nature, civilization and spirituality. Appropriately, her subject matter is often in spiritual c...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days. Bruno's Motel is a stunning C-Type Print by contemporary photographer Samuel Hicks....

Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...

Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited ed...

Edition of 5 More sizes on request This picture is a sign of a millennia-old legacy and a journey into the past. Elephants are born wanderer. Their trails, often hundreds of miles l...

Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...

Compelling, enigmatic and ultimately real, Shani Mootoo’s photographs of her childhood home in Trinidad chronicle a life. This is one in a series of images the artist calls the ‘Hist...

Dangerous Perch (1940) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London) Evacuee Barrie Peacop enjoys an ice cream as he sits on a mine ...

Edition of 15 Christopher Colville is an American artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. His images are created...

Black and White Fine Art cityscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed ...

Edward Ranney is an internationally recognized photographer who has photographed the natural and man-altered landscape for over forty years. The Andean coastal desert of southern Peru is particularly known for the geoglyphs created by the Nazca culture around 500 AD. The image shown is selected from The Lines, the monograph published by the Yale University Art Gallery in 2014. In contrast to the aerial viewpoint favored by contemporary photographers in the depicting these glyphs, Ranney’s photographs, made between 1985 and 2009, are made on ground level using a 5x7 large format camera. The physical contact with the desert spaces transformed by Nazca cultural traditions gives us an immediate sense of the challenging natural world in which the Nazca flourished. More importantly, when viewed from the ground, they glyphs – or lines – transform a harsh environment into an understandable, even intimate, cultural space. Born in 1942, educated at Yale University, internationally recognized landscape photographer Edward Ranney is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including NEA grants (1974 and 1982), a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1977), and Fulbright Fellowships (1964 and 1993). His work is represented in public and private collections alike including The Museum of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe and Houston, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Art Institute of Chicago. His photographic monographs...

Edward Ranney is an internationally recognized photographer who has photographed the natural and man-altered landscape for over forty years. The Andean coastal desert of southern...

Edward Ranney is an internationally recognized photographer who has photographed the natural and man-altered landscape for over forty years. The Andean coastal desert of southern...

Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his images at once capturing seemingly eternal geological formations and the ever-...

Colours once bright now muted… their exuberance dimmed but not lost on the streets of Yangon, Burma – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Hav...

Colours once bright now muted… their exuberance dimmed but not lost on the streets of Yangon, Burma – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Hav...

"Misty Cathedral", photography by Antoine Gaussin. Antoine Gaussin is a French photographer who studied journalism and photography. As a journalist, he traveled a lot in Africa in t...

Pink Bicycle, Sultan Sea, CA by William Greiner is a color photograph of child's bike resting against a bush, abandoned in the Californian desert. Archival Pigment Print 24 x 36 in....

Part of the EARTH series in my Four Elements. Man vs. nature with nothing to protect him :: Photograph :: Sepia :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signe...

One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...

Hailing from the picturesque city of Zaragoza, nestled near the Pyrenees, Carlos Blanchard's journey into the realm of photography was influenced by the rich tapestry of his upbringi...

Lynmouth, Great Britain is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. It belongs to historical album including masterpieces of historical places including c...

Reportage from Albania - Tirana  is a vintage photograph realized in the Late 1970s. Good conditions.

A fall day on on the beautiful island of Burano in Italy with its colorful houses. :: Photograph :: Color :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by ...

Photographic Fine Art Paper 325 g, ed. 3/7 Luca Battaglia is an Italian architect and photographer born in 1970 who lives and works in Paris, France. Luca met the Italian photograph...

Limestone Walls by Arthur Steel Insheer, the Arran Islands, 1966 All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold. paper size - 44 x 33.5 " ...

Inisheer Limestone Walls By Arthur Steel Paper size: 44 x 33.5" / 112 x 85 cm Silver Gelatin Print 1960 (printed later) unframed hand signed limited edition of 30 note other pri...

Man-Made Miracle - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the Mid-20th Century in a series on American life in the 20th Century....

Columns of An Abandoned Villa, Capri is a fascinating photograph on Pearl photographic paper realized by the artist Cindi Emond in 2019. Edition of 10 prints. Perfect condition. Han...

Sea Stones 2022 Sea Stones by Stuart Möller Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world, Stuart Möller is a fine art photographer whose i...

Beach Party 1958 A beach party during a yachting trip, Maine, USA, 1958 by Toni Frissell 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing avai...

Beach Party 1958 A beach party during a yachting trip, Maine, USA, 1958. by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing avai...

Santa Maria della Valle, Matera (Under construction) C print 180 x 225 cm Signed numbered edition of 5 Framing options available

Photographic Fine Art Paper 325 g, ed. 3/7. Artwork can be shipped in a tube or in a crate if frame is requested Luca Battaglia is an Italian architect and photographer born in 1970...

Okurimono 66 cm. x 200 cm. Edition 6 (+2 ap) 100 cm. x 200 cm. Edition 3 (+1ap) Euro 8,000 Pigment Print Okurimono (meaning both “gift” and “that which is in-between” in Japanese) - is a word that binds together this comprehensive project developed over five trips to Japan between 2007 and 2018. The series explores the personal pursuit of identity, at times with an underlying darkness as Houge had the chance to be introduced to Tokyo’s subculture. In exploring this theme, Houge has ventured into delicate matters such as sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The artist wishes to question the viewer and provoke a reflection on topics that are often seen as taboos in our contemporary societies. The viewer’s own associations are important in appreciating this work where ambiguity plays an important role. The project started in the Harajuku district of Tokyo which is known as a center of Japanese youth culture and where Houge found some of his first motifs: teenage girls dressing up in post-Victorian dresses or ‘cosplay’ costumes to identify with a character of their favorite comics. Here, the desire to express one’s uniqueness is central and the photographer explores the tension between personal identity and aesthetics shared by all (or at least by the same youth group). In many of his carefully staged photographs, Houge’s models are masked, so as to echo the many social masks we wear in our day-to-day lives. In our post-modern information society, drained of wonder, these enigmatic masked characters also evoke the world of shamans and pagan rituals, therefore injecting a sense of mystery and spirituality that many people are longing for. Symbolism and the many references to ritual and identity in an otherwise suppressed society, may at times create a sense of unease among viewers. The Okurimono project also explores the topic of identity and sexuality in gender dysphoria with Japan’s nyūhāfu (the transsexual ‘new halfs’). Here, the quest for identity coincides with a search of femininity and body image which results in complex physical transformations. Viewers may look at these portraits not having any clue that models are nyūhāfu. Yet, the photographs are staged so that viewers are placed in a disconcerting voyeuristic role while looking at otherwise closed world. Shibari (the art of tying), which originates from the Edo period (1600s), is another territory explored by Houge in his Okurimono series. His striking photographs of female models tied with red rope on a white background take us into this powerful journey into vulnerability and surrender, power and freedom. Through tradition, symbolism and technology, Okurimono also explores the hugely potent symbols that help define parts of Japanese culture and national identity, between old and new. As Art historian Erling Bugge put it: “Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden...

The photograph was taken in Egypt in 2014 and edited in 2020. The artwork/photo is sold unframed (only the art print) and will be sent in a hard tube. The photo is printed on H...

Slim Aarons Laguna Beach Surfers 1970 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Principessa Doris Pignatelli poses...

Slim Aarons Girolamo Strozzi at Villa Cusona 1983 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Prince ...

The photo was taken in Luxor, Egypt. The artwork/photo is sold unframed, and will be carefully rolled in a hard tube with many layers of protection for safe international shippin...

"Untitled (Nr. 0003)" Landscape Photography 18" x 24" Edition of 20 by Ben Cope Unframed - ships rolled in a tube Ben Cope + Rowan Daly Off the Grid Off the Grid is the culminat...