Lot 102
Various PhotographersSelected studies from the Seagram "Courthouses" project 13
4 October 2021, 14:00 EDT
New YorkUS$8,000 - US$12,000
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Various Photographers
Selected studies from the Seagram "Courthouses" project, 1976-1977
8 gelatin silver and 3 chromogenic prints, each signed, 8 titled and dated in pencil/ ink on the verso; accompanied by a first edition volume, Pare, Courthouse: A Photographic Document, Horizon Pres, 1978; and a poster, Courthouse: An Exhibition of Photographs Selected from the Bicentennial Project of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 12-July 10, 1976. (13)
varying sizes from 7 5/8 x 9 5/8in (19.3 x 24.3cm) to 15 1/4 x 12in (38.7 x 30.5cm)
sheet varying sizes from 8 x 10in (20.2 x 25.4cm) to 20 1/2 x 17 1/8in (52 x 43.4cm)
8 gelatin silver and 3 chromogenic prints, each signed, 8 titled and dated in pencil/ ink on the verso; accompanied by a first edition volume, Pare, Courthouse: A Photographic Document, Horizon Pres, 1978; and a poster, Courthouse: An Exhibition of Photographs Selected from the Bicentennial Project of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 12-July 10, 1976. (13)
varying sizes from 7 5/8 x 9 5/8in (19.3 x 24.3cm) to 15 1/4 x 12in (38.7 x 30.5cm)
sheet varying sizes from 8 x 10in (20.2 x 25.4cm) to 20 1/2 x 17 1/8in (52 x 43.4cm)
Footnotes
Provenance
With Renee Brady Fine Art, New York
Literature
Pare, Courthouse: A Photographic Doument, Horizon Pres, 1978, most illustrated with Shore's Greene County Courthouse, Greensboro, Georgia, illustrated both on the cover of the book and as MoMA's poster image
To mark the 1976 Bicentennial of the United States of America, Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc. commissioned twenty-four photographers to record more than 1,100 county court houses using both color and black and white film. 4 of this original number are represented here - Jim Dow, Tod Papageorge, Nicholas Nixon and Stephen Shore. The project, according to director Phyllis Lambert, "was the first undertaking of its kind, its aim, to produce a cross section of American architecture from geographical and historical points of view. Beginning in 1725, and concluding with buildings still under construction, the Seagram Archive pays particular attention to the eastern states, the Midwest and Texas and California."
The resulting photographs were exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art from April 12 - July 10, 1977.
