JERRY UELSMANN (American, 1934-2022) Untitled (Rock, Tree, and Water) 1983, gelatin silver print inscribed, signed, and artists stamp verso inscribed Dear Neal, I keep running across your last letter | feeling guilty...I don't even remember what I sent...All I know is that I'm busier than I would like to be...Enclosed are two versions of the man on the desk print that I hope will help your cause....Friendly thoughts, Jerry and test print 1983
JERRY UELSMANN (1934-2022) Untitled (Self-portrait in shadow). 1971. Silver print, the image measuring 13¼x10 inches (33.7x25.4 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Uelsmann's initials and date in pencil on mount recto, and his signature and date in ink and his address label, on mount verso.
JERRY UELSMANN (1934-2022) Apocalypse II. 1967; printed 1980s. Silver print, the image measuring 10¾x13⅝ inches (27.3x34.6 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Uelsmann's signature, title, and negative date in pencil on verso.
Jerry Uelsmann (American, 19342022) Untitled (Leaves Over Couch), 1987 gelatin silver print initialed and dated in pencil on mat window 15 x 19 inches. Property from the Collection of Ellen and Jerry Wolf, Mission Hills, Kansas
Jerry Norman Uelsmann (American, 1934-2022). A surrealist abstract black and white photograph depicting an eerie, empty room with a ghostly, patterned gown standing upright next to an antique dresser displaying various objects, including a framed picture of a clouded sky. Signed in pencil "J N U 1981" in the lower right. Presented under glass with a white mat in a metal frame. Sight size 11" x 14". Retains gallery label on verso. Provenance: Barbara Gillman (1937-2023), an influential American art gallerist. Dimensions: 17.5 X 20 X .75 in. Condition: Good overall condition having average to mild surface wear, toning and light foxing on mat. Frame having mild storage wear to edges and corners. The gallery has not examined it out of the frame. Estate fresh to the market. Shipping: Hill Auction Gallery offers in-house ground contiguous USA domestic shipping, excluding New Mexico, for $95 plus insurance. Gallery will refer third party shippers for international buyers. Purchaser pick up available upon request. Local Delivery: Florida door-to-door hand delivery service available for this lot; contact Toti@Zemaqua.com for an estimate.
Jerry N. Uelsmann (American, 1934 - 2022) Group of Three: Untitled, 1967 + Untitled, 1966 + Apocalypse II, 1967 gelatin silver, Copy Print this group of copy prints was created by Uelsman in the early 1970's for a calendar project. Untitled, 1967 signed and dated verso: 1967 JERRY N. UESLMANN (Copy PRINT) labeled verso: Jerry N. Uelsmann 5701 S. W. 17th Drive Gainesville, Fla. 32601 image: 6 5/8 x 5 1/4 in. (16.8 x 13.3 cm.), sheet: 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.1 x 20 cm.) Untitled, 1966 signed verso: JERRY N. UESLMANN 1966 (Copy PRINT) labeled verso: Jerry N. Uelsmann 5701 S. W. 17th Drive Gainesville, Fla. 32601 image: 7 7/8 x 5 3/8 in. (20 x 13.7 cm.), sheet: 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.1 x 20 cm.) Apocalypse II, 1967 signed verso: JERRY N. UESLMANN (Copy PRINT) titled verso: "APOCALYPSE II" 1967 labeled verso: Jerry N. Uelsmann 5701 S. W. 17th Drive Gainesville, Fla. 32601 image: 5 7/8 x 7 3/8 in. (14.9 x 18.7 cm.), sheet: 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (20 x 25.1 cm.)
Jerry N Uelsmann (American, 1934 - 2022) Untitled (Kudzu Tide), 1982 gelatin silver graphite signed and dated on overmat lower right: J.N.U. 1982 inscribed on mount verso and recto: 1982 Jerry N. Uelsmann* copyright stamp verso: Original Photograph / Jerry N. Uelsmann / Copyright 1982
Jerry Uelsmann The Committee 2002 / printed later platinum print image: 12 h x 9.375 w in (30 x 24 cm) mount: 18 h x 14.25 w in (46 x 36 cm) Signed and dated to verso 'Jerry N. Uelsmann 2002'. This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.
Jerry Uelsmann Untitled (Boat and Waterfall) 1997 / printed later platinum print image: 12 h x 10 w in (30 x 25 cm) mount: 18 h x 14.25 w in (46 x 36 cm) Signed and dated to verso 'Jerry Uelsmann 1997'. This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.
Jerry Uelsmann Untitled (Leaves on Beach) 1976 / printed later gelatin silver print image: 17.125 h x 15.125 w in (43 x 38 cm) sheet: 19.875 h x 15.875 w in (50 x 40 cm) Signed, titled and dated to verso 'Untitled 1976 Jerry N. Uelsmann' with artist's copyright stamp. This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.
Jerry Uelsmann Untitled (The Philosopher's Desk) 1976 / printed later platinum print image: 12.125 h x 8.625 w in (31 x 22 cm) mount: 18 h x 14 w in (46 x 36 cm) Signed and dated to verso 'Jerry Uelsmann 1976'. This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.
Jerry Norman Uelsmann American, (1934 - 2022) nude female with an apple, 1981 photographic lithograph Certificate of Authenticity verso. Printed 1987. Biography from the Archives of askART: "Jerry Uelsmann, Surreal Image-Maker, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, April 13, 2022. He did not believe that a photographer's creativity ended with the click of the shutter; in his darkroom, he combined elements of multiple pictures to create something new, Jerry Uelsmann, a photographer who ingeniously used darkroom techniques to manipulate his black-and-white pictures into surreal montages that anticipated by many years the digital image-editing revolutionized by Adobe Photoshop, died on April 4 in Gainesville, Fla. He was 87. The cause was complications of a stroke, his son, Andrew, said. Mr. Uelsmann's dreamlike imagery seems to ignore the laws of gravity and rationality, much as the paintings of Rene Magritte did. In Mr. Uelsmann's imaginative alternate universe, boats float above clouds and waterfalls. Hands that morph from a tree trunk gently hold a bird's nest. Five empty chairs situated magically on a pond face a fifth chair, as if they're holding a meeting. A young nude woman whose lower body is only a foggy mist hovers over mountains. "The primary creative gesture for most photographers used to be when they clicked the shutter," Mr. Uelsmann (pronounced YULES-man) told Smithsonian magazine in 2013. "But I realized that the darkroom was a visual research lab where the creative process could continue." To choose the images that he would combine, he combed through stacks of his contact sheets from years past. "I start seeing how images might fit together," he said in an interview in 2011 with the Lens blog of The New York Times. "There's a kind of cognition. I'll be working on an image, and I'll remember a photograph I made 20 years earlier or 15 years earlier. I have to find the negative that I think might fit into that context." Working in his darkroom with as many as seven enlargers, each holding a different negative, Mr. Uelsmann moved a sheet of photographic paper from enlarger to enlarger. He printed a different element from each negative, creating a photo-montage that could be filled with paradoxes, wonder and symbolism. Sometimes it took days to make a print that satisfied him. "If I have an ultimate goal," Mr. Uelsmann told The Times, "it is to amaze myself." Philip Gefter, a photography critic, wrote in an email that Mr. Uelsmann "artfully juxtaposed his very precise photographs of actual objects, creating unusual incongruities to surreal effects." "His intensions were wholly symbolic and based on psychological archetypes of a Jungian nature," Mr. Gefter added. Mr. Uelsmann's work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe. In New York it was included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2012 show "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop," which traveled to other cities. One of his montages in the show was that of a tiny Victorian study with its ceiling open to the sky and, on a desk, a tiny man walking on a map. (Mr. Uelsmann had photographed the man walking on a beach.) Mia Fineman, who curated the show, said of Mr. Uelsmann in a telephone interview: "He was outside of the mainstream of photographic art-making, which really had a fixation on the purity of the straight photograph and the idea of previsualization — that step where the photographer should be able to visualize the finished print at the moment you click the shutter. He went against all that." Jerry Norman Uelsmann was born on June 11, 1934, in Detroit. His father, Norman, owned a grocery store, where Jerry worked as a delivery boy. His mother, Florence (Crossman) Uelsmann, was a homemaker. At 12, Jerry began taking drawing lessons at the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, where he became fascinated by Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait." In high school he was a photographer for the student newspaper and worked at a photography studio. When he entered the Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York, his goal was to be a portrait photographer. But under the influence of teachers like the photographer Minor White (who called the camera a "metamorphosing machine," Mr. Uelsmann said), he began to see a wider world in photography. After graduating with a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1957, Mr. Uelsmann earned a master's in audio visual communications and a master of fine arts in photography at Indiana University in 1960. From 1960 to 1998, he taught photography at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Early on, in a group darkroom there, he first made use of multiple enlargers, an innovative approach that accelerated his creation of photomontages. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in photography 1967, the year he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. John Szarkowski, the renowned director of MoMA's department of photography, once said in an interview with The Daily News of New York that Mr. Uelsmann dared to question the finality of a picture once it had been taken. "He meditates on his pictures, experiments with print techniques, recombining pictures," Mr. Szarkowski said, "and the result is truly artistic and new." Mr. Uelsmann's books and monographs include Uelsmann: Process and Perception (1985); Silver Meditations (1988) and Uelsmann Untitled: A Retrospective (2014, with Carol McCusker). Describing Mr. Uelsmann's home studio in Gainesville in "Uelsmann Untitled," Ms. McCusker wrote that his walls were "pinned with cartoons, dolls' heads, strange toys that move or talk, 3-D sculptures of Hieronymus Bosch and 19th-century Victoriana," and that his shelves were filled with camera memorabilia, mug shots and gizmos — all of which seemed to form a chorus "that silently encourages or inspires his next creation." In addition to his son, Mr. Uelsmann, who died in a hospice facility, is survived by two grandchildren. His marriages to Marilyn Schlott, Diane Faris and Maggie Taylor ended in divorce. Mr. Uelsmann understood the benefits of using Photoshop, which was developed by Adobe in the late 1980s, but he chose not to abandon his analog artistry. He used a computer, but only for email. "If I were 22, I would probably be working in Photoshop," he told The Times. And Photoshop appeared to appreciate him. In 2013, its Twitter account shared an article about Mr. Uelsmann's photographic manipulation with a message that said, "Jerry Uelsmann's incredible composites remind us that imagination is everything." His former wife Ms. Taylor, a digital artist who uses Photoshop, recalled that Adobe approached Mr. Uelsmann in the mid-1980s to create a poster image to promote a new version of Photoshop. It was his introduction to the software. Adobe scanned some of his negatives and sent an expert to help him create a final photomontage of clouds resting in the palms of two hands while a rowboat floats unattended in the water nearby. He decided which elements to put where, but did not know how to use the software. "He liked the image and decided to take the negatives into the darkroom and recreate it photographically," Ms. Taylor wrote in an email. "Working in the wet darkroom was an integral part of his creative process; sitting at a desk was not for him." From the collection of "Stevie Sputnik".
UELSMANN, JERRY (b. 1934) Untitled [Philosopher's Desk, 1976]. Gelatin silver print, 19 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches (711 x 559 mm) on larger sheet, initialed and dated 1976 on mat (l.r.), print verso signed and dated in black ink, with Uelsmann's stamp. Fine, framed.
Jerry Uelsmann (1934-2022), American UNTITLED (FOREST CARPET), 1976 gelatin silver print initialed and dated; signed and dated to mat verso 13.75 x 10 in — 34.9 x 25.4 cm Provenance: Deja Vue Gallery, Toronto, ON Note: With a program centred on photography, the Deja Vue Gallery was one of the first spaces in Toronto to champion the medium. The diversity of the Gallery’s collection includes Canadian artists Richard Harrington and Yousuf Karsh. Harrington, known for his work in the Canadian Arctic, recorded the vanishing nomadic lifestyle of the Inuit. In his later book, “The Face of the Arctic”, he wrote that “in the midst of this misery, I took photographs. These pictures would, I hope, show the outside world what real suffering was. They would also show the strength, endurance, courage and ingenuity of an almost exhausted people.” (1) In contrast, Karsh believed that a portrait should be more than just a representation of the physical appearance of a person, and should also convey their inner spirit and character. Thanks to a variety of light techniques, each portrait included in this auction – “Georges Braque”, 1941, “Joan Baez”, 1970, “George Bernard Shaw”, 1943 – are distinctly represented, each existing within their own world. American masters are also represented by the Deja Vue collection, with offerings by Edward Weston and his Western landscapes. “Rancho Sonoma,” 1937, “Point Lobos,” 1929, “Kelp”, 1930, and “Wing of Pelican”, 1931 all represent quintessential parts of the artist’s oeuvre. Part of the Group f/64 along with Ansel Adams, Willard Van Dyke and Imogen Cunningham, Weston focused on precise studies, and his work greatly influenced the aesthetics of American photography. The final images made by the artist were taken in Point Lobos in 1948, before Parkinson's disease made his work no longer possible. His legacy is carefully maintained by his sons Brett and Cole, who have produced prints using the original negatives per the instructions of their father for approximately 40 years. (1) https://www.waddingtons.ca/richard-harrington-arctic-photographs-from-the-collection-of-lorraine-monk/ Estimate: $1,500—2,000
JERRY UELSMANN (Florida/Michigan, 1934-2022) gelatin silver photograph montage, "Girl's Hand and Window." Initialed lower right and dated 1964, signed again on verso, label attached verso, 13.75" x 8.5" (image), 20" x 16" (matting), unframed.
Boat Below a Waterfall, gelaatin silver print, 12 x 10 in (30.5 x 25.4 cm), framed 20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm), signed lower right, PROVENANCE: Private collector Dedham, MA
Jerry Uelsmann (Am. 1934-2022) "Rock Tree" 1969 Gelatin silver print, framed under glass Signed and dated in pencil on mount l.r., titled in pencil on mount l.l., Light Gallery label verso 12 3/4" x 8 1/2" actual, 20 1/4" x 16 1/4" framed
Jerry Uelsmann Forest Carpet 1976 vintage-toned gelatin silver print image: 13.625 h x 10 w in (35 x 25 cm) mount: 20 h x 16 w in (51 x 41 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'J.N.U. 1976'. Signed and dated to verso '1976 Jerry N. Uelsmann' with artist's studio label. This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.
Heading: Author: Uelsmann, Jerry Title: Untitled (Cube over Sea) Place Published: Publisher: Date Published: 1980 Description: Gelatin silver print. 27.8x35.4 cm (11x14").Signed, titled, dated and stamped on verso. Likely a vintage print. Jerry Uelsmann (1934-2022), knighted as an "honorary West Coast photographer" by Ansel Adams and Imogen Cunningham, brings a Magrittean meta-level to this quietly sublime seascape.
JERRY UELSMANN (1934-2022) Untitled (cloud box). Silver print, the image measuring 10¼x13½ inches (26x34.3 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.). 1980s Provenance: Acquired directly from the photographer; to the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl
JERRY UELSMANN (1934-2022) Untitled (female nude melting into bed). Silver print, the image measuring 11x10½ inches (27.9x26.7 cm.), the mount 10⅞x16 inches (27.6x40.6 cm.), with Uelsmann's initials and date in pencil on mount recto, and his signature in ink and copyright stamp on mount verso. 1977 Provenance: Acquired directly from the photographer; to the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl
JERRY UELSMANN (1934-2022) Untitled (sand castle). Silver print, the image measuring 13⅜x10½ inches (34x26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Uelsmann's signature, title, and date in ink and his copyright stamp with the date also in ink on print verso, his initials and date in pencil on the overmat, and his signature, title, and date in ink and his copyright stamp with the date also in ink on the undermat verso. 1990 Provenance: Acquired directly from the photographer; to the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl
JERRY N. UELSMANN (American 1934-2022) A PHOTOGRAPH, "Untitled Floating Nude," 1986, gelatin silver print, signed on reverse, "Jerry N. Ulesmann," and inscribed and dated, "Untitled / 1986," also initialed on the mat, "J.N.Y.;" 16" x 20", framed 22" x 28".
JERRY UELSMANN (American 1934-2022) A PHOTOGRAPH, "Leaves Over Couch," 1987, gelatin silver print, initialed and dated on the mat L/R, "J.N.U. 1987;" 14 1/2" x 18 3/4", framed 22 1/4" x 28 1/4".
Jerry Uelsmann (1934-2022) Untitled (Hands holding water), 2002 Gelatin silver print, printed 2002, initialed and dated in pencil on the window mat; signed, titled, dated (twice) in ink and copyright credit stamp on the verso. image: 13 1/4 x 10 1/4in. (33.5 x 26cm.) sheet: 14 x 11in. (35.5 x 28cm.)
Untitled Boat and Waterfall Gelatin silver print Signed in ink with copyright stamp on verso Matted and initialed "J.N.U. 1997." Jerry Uelsmann (American, 1934-2022) 12 x 10 inches (sight) 20.25 x 16.25 inches (frame) Overall good condition. Provenance: Purchase Receipt From Sothebys New York.
(American, 1934-2022) Untitled, 1985, signed, dated, stamped, and titled "Untitled" print verso, initialed and dated mat recto, vintage gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in.; matted, 16 x 20 in. Provenance: purchased directly from the artist; Private Collection, North Carolina
Jerry Uelsmann (1934-2022) Equivalent, 1964 Gelatin silver print; mounted to Crescent Illustration Board, initialed and dated in pencil on the mount, signed and inscribed in ink on the reverse. 13 3/4 x 9 in. (34.9 x 22.9 cm.) mount 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Jerry Uelsmann (1934-2022) Untitled (Floating Tree), 1969 Gelatin silver print; mounted, initialed and dated in pencil on the mount, signed and dated in ink and the photographer's Gainesville, Florida address label on the reverse. 9 3/4 x 12 5/8 in. (24.8 x 32.2 cm.) mount 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
JERRY UELSMANN (1934-2022) Untitled (glass case in forest). Silver print, the image measuring 10 1/2x11 7/8 inches (26.7x30.2 cm.), the mount 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Uelsmann's initials and date in pencil on mount recto, and his signature and date in ink and address label on mount verso. 1976
JERRY UELSMANN (1934- ) Untitled (forest carpet). Silver print, the image measuring 13 3/4x10 inches (34.9x25.4 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Uelsmann's initials and date in pencil on mount recto, and his signature and date in ink and his address label on mount verso. 1976
JERRY UELSMANN (1934-2022) Bless Our Home and Eagle. Silver print, the image measuring 13 3/4x10 3/4 inches (34.9x27.3 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Uelsmann's initials, title, and date in pencil on mount recto, and his signature, title, date, and inscription in ink, on mount verso. 1963
JERRY N. UELSMANN (American 1934-2022) A PHOTOGRAPH, "Angel in the Sea (Untitled)," 1993, archivally processed original semi-gloss black and white photograph, dated and signed in margin in monogram, "J.N.U.," reverse with artist's paper label, signed and endorsed a second time in ink, dated and titled; 13" x 10", framed 20" x 16".
DESCRIPTION: Gelatin silver print by Jerry Uelsmann (American, 1934 - 2022) depicting a cube hovering over the ocean. Pencil initialed and dated "1980" at lower right. Signed "Jerry N. Uelsmann" and dated "1980" along with copyright stamp ("Original Photograph Jerry N. Uelsmann Copyright 1980", with "80" written in pen) on verso of mat. CIRCA: 1980 ORIGIN: American DIMENSIONS: (Sight) H: 19.75" W: 16" (Frame) H: 23.75" W: 27.25" - CONDITION: Great condition. See lot description for details on item condition. More detailed condition requests can be obtained upon sms or email.
Jerry Uelsmann, two untitled surrealist gelatin silver prints, the first with a nude figure in stone, mat signed in graphite, lower right, "J.N.U. 1985", the other with two water cubes, one with boat, mat signed in graphite, lower right, "J.N.U. 1983", both mounted to board and matted, each with stamp and signature on verso of both print and mount, with title and dates, mounts measure 16in x 20in
Jerry Uelsmann, two untitled surrealist gelatin silver prints, the first a composition with a Georgian interior open to the sky, an 18th century style architects drawing table with a tiny figure walking the incline, mat signed in graphite, lower right, "J.N.U. 1976", the other of a rocky mountain stream with floating nude, mat signed in graphite, lower right, "J.N.U. 1985", both mounted to board and matted, each with stamp and signature on verso of both print and mount, with title and dates, mounts measure 16in x 20in
Jerry Uelsmann Untitled (Doves) 1984 gelatin silver print image: 13.5 h x 10.5 w in (34 x 27 cm) sheet: 14 h x 11 w in (36 x 28 cm) Signed and dated to window mat 'J.N.U. 1984 '. Signed and dated to verso and mat verso '1984 Jerry Uelsmann' with artist's stamp. Provenance: Collection of Susan and G. Ray Hawkins, Beverly Hills This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.
Jerry Uelsmann Untitled 1972 vintage gelatin silver print image: 10.5 h x 12 w in (27 x 30 cm) mount: 16 h x 20 w in (41 x 51 cm) Signed and dated to to mount 'J.N.U. 1972'. Signed and dated to verso 1972 Jerry Uelsmann' with artist's address label. Provenance: Collection of Susan and G. Ray Hawkins, Beverly Hills This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.
Untitled. 1974. Gelatin silver print. 35 x 21,5 cm (51 x 40,5 cm). Mounted to board, monogrammed and dated by the photographer in pencil below image on mount; signed and dated by the photographer in ink and photographer's label on mount verso. -- -- A rich tonal print in excellent condition. -- - Sollten Sie detailliertere Zustandsberichte wünschen, kontaktieren Sie uns bitte. / Should you need more detailed condition reports, please contact us.
Jerry N. Uelsmann American, (1934-2022) Bless our Home and Eagle, 1962 silver print with Uelsmann's initials and date in pencil on mount recto, framed.
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