




Lot 1056
A pair of Harper Goff photographic scrapbooks
21 November 2017, 13:00 EST
New YorkUS$2,000 - US$3,000
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A pair of Harper Goff photographic scrapbooks
Comprising 2 photograph albums: White Album, 56 pp (18 are blank): 18 pp of illustration clippings from magazines, etc.; a program to an exhibit featuring Goff; photographs of the VIP suites at the Astroworld Hotel, gelatin silver prints, 11 pp; a typed letter from National Geographic magazine art director Andrew Poggenpohl, July 2, 1959, 1 p, thanking Goff for granting him access to Goff's painting of the Titanic; a fan letter re: the Nautilus, 2 pp, with 4 color photographs; an original Goff drawing of Rothenberg-ob-der-Tauber, Bavaria, pen and ink on paper, with a handwritten caption; a program; 8 additional black and white and color photographs; "Vol 2 / H. Goff's / Illustration" on label taped to cover, "Magazine and / Calander [sic] Ill's" in pen to masking tape on spine. Blue Album, 78 pp (19 are blank): Approximately 143 black and white and 42 color photographs, gelatin silver prints, various sizes; 2 original magazine art sketches by Goff; a letter to Goff from the Los Angeles Public Library, 1 p, 1934; photographs include: Goff's childhood photos, many images of Harper and Florence Goff (1940s-1970s), behind-the-scenes images from Pete Kelly's Blues and of the Fantastic Voyage Proteus submarine, Goff railroading, a "Jolly Green Giant" commercial, many images of Los Angeles' Bunker Hill district, and Goff and Ward Kimball talking with a railroad train's engineer; with a Hollywood Reporter clipping, March 21, 1954, concerning Goff's work on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Each: 2.5 x 12.5 x 16.5 in.
Each: 2.5 x 12.5 x 16.5 in.