Mount Tamalpais
Maker
Alma Lavenson
(American, 1897 - 1989)
ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPHS
Date1928
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions9 5/8 x 13 in. (24.4 x 33 cm.)
sheet: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
InscribedInscribed on verso: Mt. Tamalpais 1928/ Alma Lavenson
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Albert Wahrhaftig
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Label Text"With a boyfriend I would hike around Marin County and make very romantic, fuzzy pictures of Mount Tamalpais."Mount Tamalpais is a classic example of the Pictorialist style. Lavenson used a Picturesque composition to lead the viewer on a visual journey through the landscape, with the mountain as the ultimate destination. To produce the diffused, "fuzzy" quality that compares to the loose brushwork of the Impressionists, Lavenson switched from the optically correct, sharp-focus lens that came with her camera to an uncorrected, soft-focus lens.
Status
Not on viewObject number2005.22.2
Unknown, British
ca. 1936
Object number: 2000.5.2872
Joseph Basil Girard
n.d.
Object number: 89.3.99