Adam Clark Vroman Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Adam Clark Vroman Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 24, 2024
Native Americans [VROMAN, Adam C. (1856-1916), photographer]. "Camp Vroman" (40 miles north from Holbrooks.)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Native Americans [VROMAN, Adam C. (1856-1916), photographer]. "Camp Vroman" (40 miles north from Holbrooks.) 6 x 8 in. printing-out paper photograph on 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. cardstock mount. Uncredited, but with Vroman's calligraphic caption and image number inked on mount recto. This photograph was taken during Vroman's first trip to see the Hopi in 1895. A horse-drawn wagon is parked just ahead of a small pueblo in the foreground. At least four men are visible standing near and climbing out of the wagon. In the distance, a mesa emerges into the center of the photograph. This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Freeman’s | Hindman
Oct. 24, 2024
Native Americans [VROMAN, Adam C. (1856-1916), photographer]. "Charlie" the Navajo Blanket Maker. Ca 1895.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Native Americans [VROMAN, Adam C. (1856-1916), photographer]. "Charlie" the Navajo Blanket Maker. Ca 1895. 8 x 6 in. printing-out paper photograph on 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. cardstock mount. Uncredited, but with Vroman's calligraphic caption and image number inked on mount recto. This photograph was taken during Vroman's first trip to see the Hopi in 1895. This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Freeman’s | Hindman
May. 16, 2024
ADAM CLARK VROMAN (1856-1916) Native figure with blanket.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
ADAM CLARK VROMAN (1856-1916) Native figure with blanket. Platinum print, the image measuring 8x4¾ inches (20.3x12.1 cm.), the sheet 10x7¾ inches (25.4x19.7 cm.). 1895-1904 Provenance: Christie's East, Sale 45, lot 111, October 3, 1979; to the Present Owner
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 03, 2023
Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) Canyon De Chelly
Est: $5,500 - $7,500
Featured in this lot is this silver print called Canyon De Chelly circa 1904 from artist Adam Clark Vroman born in 1856 and died in 1916. The photograph is wonderfully and professionally crafted silver print construction that shows the iconic opening to the Canyon de Chelly which is well known as the birthplace of Navajo Chinle rugs. Adam Clark Vroman (April 15, 1856, La Salle, Illinois - July 24, 1916, Altadena, California) was an American portrait photographer, known primarily for his portraits of indigenous peoples of the Southwestern United States. He was the founder and proprietor of Vroman's Bookstore - the oldest and largest independent bookshop in Southern California. The condition of this framed photograph is good with no obvious signs of damage and shows good overall condition. The measurements of this framed photograph is 18 1/8" x 16" and the visible art measures 7 3/4" x 6 1/8". Provenance: From the renowned Sundog Fine Art Bozeman, Montana collection and collected by Bruce VanLandingham. Bruce VanLandingham was a pillar in the American Indian collecting community and a respected expert. Along with being an avid collector, Bruce also was the sole owner of Sundog Fine Art Gallery in Bozeman, which was both part museum and gallery. The silver print is marked with the original collectors sticker that reads: Canyon De Chelly - Adam Clark Vroman - 1904 - Silver Print - "More than a thousand feet!" This is one of the most sacred places of the Navajo and Anasazi people. The Canyon is located in Northeastern Arizona. - $12,500.00.
North American Auction Company
Mar. 19, 2023
Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) 1901 Museum Gates Expedition Photographs Limited Edition Boxed Set
Est: $400 - $600
Adam Clark Vromanphotographs from the 1901 Museum-Gates Expedition. Limited boxed edition set. 23/50. Approx. 19.5 in. H x 16.5 in. W x 2.5 in. D. Weight 15.55 lbs.
Hughes Auctions
Nov. 26, 2022
ADAM CLARK VROMAN PHOTOGRAVURE HOPI BASKET MAKER
Est: $50 - $75
25" by 31" framed. Allard Auction Collection Inv: JCU
Davis Brothers Auction
Oct. 22, 2022
Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) Original Photograph
Est: $2,500 - $5,000
Featured in this lot is this gelatin silver called "Hopi Town Snake Priest," from Adam Clark Vroman (born in 1856 and passed in 1916) circa 1901. The photograph shows a Hopi Native American Snake Priest in ceremonial garments with a squash blossom around his neck and carrying a dancing wand. This is an extremely prominent photograph taken during the Hopi Snake Dance, which is a 16-day ceremony to celebrate ancestry and pray for rainfall. The condition of this gelatin silver is good, with no obvious signs of damage. The measurements of this framed silver gelatin are 18 1/4" x 14 1/2" and the visible art measures 7 7/8" x 4 1/2". Provenance: From the renowned Sundog Fine Art Bozeman, Montana collection and collected by Bruce VanLandingham. Bruce VanLandingham was a pillar in the American Indian collecting community and a respected expert. Along with being an avid collector, Bruce also was the sole owner of Sundog Fine Art Gallery in Bozeman, which was both part museum and gallery. Truly an outstanding example. Originally valued by Sundog at $10,500.
North American Auction Company
Aug. 23, 2022
Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916); Carson City, Paiute Indians;
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) Carson City, Paiute Indians, c. 1900 Platinum print, printed c. 1900, titled in pencil on the verso. 2 x 2 3/4in (5 x 7cm) For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Jul. 28, 2022
Adam Clark Vroman's The Club, modern print
Est: $400 - $600
Heading: Author: Vroman, Adam Clark Title: The Club Place Published: No place Publisher: Date Published: No date; modern print Description: Platinum print cornered into mat. Image: 26.3x34.8 cm (10½x13¾"); matted: 40.8x51 cm (16x20"). Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916), a native of Illinois, moved to Pasadena, California, in 1892. He was a photographer and bookstore owner who made several expeditions to the Southwest to photograph the American Indians living in Arizona and New Mexico. From the collection of Jack and Beverly Waltman.
PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
Jul. 09, 2022
C. 1901 Hopi Snake Priest Original Photo by Vroman
Est: $12,500 - $17,500
Featured in this lot is this gelatin silver called "Hopi Town Snake Priest," from Adam Clark Vroman (born in 1856 and passed in 1916) circa 1901. The photograph shows a Hopi Native American Snake Priest in ceremonial garments with a squash blossom around his neck and carrying a dancing wand. This is an extremely prominent photograph taken during the Hopi Snake Dance, which is a 16-day ceremony to celebrate ancestry and pray for rainfall. The condition of this gelatin silver is good, with no obvious signs of damage. The measurements of this framed silver gelatin are 18 1/4" x 14 1/2" and the visible art measures 7 7/8" x 4 1/2". Provenance: From the renowned Sundog Fine Art Bozeman, Montana collection and collected by Bruce VanLandingham. Bruce VanLandingham was a pillar in the American Indian collecting community and a respected expert. Along with being an avid collector, Bruce also was the sole owner of Sundog Fine Art Gallery in Bozeman, which was both part museum and gallery. Truly an outstanding example.
North American Auction Company
May. 21, 2022
C. 1901 Hopi Snake Priest Original Photo by Vroman
Est: $12,500 - $17,500
Featured in this lot is this gelatin silver called "Hopi Town Snake Priest," from Adam Clark Vroman (born in 1856 and passed in 1916) circa 1901. The photograph shows a Hopi Native American Snake Priest in ceremonial garments with a squash blossom around his neck and carrying a dancing wand. This is an extremely prominent photograph taken during the Hopi Snake Dance, which is a 16-day ceremony to celebrate ancestry and pray for rainfall. The condition of this gelatin silver is good, with no obvious signs of damage. The measurements of this framed silver gelatin are 18 1/4" x 14 1/2" and the visible art measures 7 7/8" x 4 1/2". Provenance: From the renowned Sundog Fine Art Bozeman, Montana collection and collected by Bruce VanLandingham. Bruce VanLandingham was a pillar in the American Indian collecting community and a respected expert. Along with being an avid collector, Bruce also was the sole owner of Sundog Fine Art Gallery in Bozeman, which was both part museum and gallery. Truly an outstanding example.
North American Auction Company
Apr. 23, 2022
Adam Vroman (1856-1916) Hopi Snake Priest 1901
Est: $12,500 - $17,500
Featured in this lot is this gelatin silver called "Hopi Town Snake Priest," from Adam Clark Vroman (born in 1856 and passed in 1916) circa 1901. The photograph shows a Hopi Native American Snake Priest in ceremonial garments with a squash blossom around his neck and carrying a dancing wand. This is an extremely prominent photograph taken during the Hopi Snake Dance, which is a 16-day ceremony to celebrate ancestry and pray for rainfall. The condition of this gelatin silver is good, with no obvious signs of damage. The measurements of this framed silver gelatin are 18 1/4" x 14 1/2" and the visible art measures 7 7/8" x 4 1/2". Provenance: From the renowned Sundog Fine Art Bozeman, Montana collection and collected by Bruce VanLandingham. Bruce VanLandingham was a pillar in the American Indian collecting community and a respected expert. Along with being an avid collector, Bruce also was the sole owner of Sundog Fine Art Gallery in Bozeman, which was both part museum and gallery. Truly an outstanding example.
North American Auction Company
Apr. 07, 2022
Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916); Carson City, Paiute Indians;
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) Carson City, Paiute Indians, c. 1900 Platinum print, printed c. 1900, titled in pencil on the verso. 2 x 2 3/4in (5 x 7cm) For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Mar. 19, 2022
Adam Vroman (1856-1916) Hopi Snake Priest 1901
Est: $12,500 - $17,500
Featured in this lot is this gelatin silver called "Hopi Town Snake Priest," from Adam Clark Vroman (born in 1856 and passed in 1916) circa 1901. The photograph shows a Hopi Native American Snake Priest in ceremonial garments with a squash blossom around his neck and carrying a dancing wand. This is an extremely prominent photograph taken during the Hopi Snake Dance, which is a 16-day ceremony to celebrate ancestry and pray for rainfall. The condition of this gelatin silver is good, with no obvious signs of damage. The measurements of this framed silver gelatin are 18 1/4" x 14 1/2" and the visible art measures 7 7/8" x 4 1/2". Provenance: From the renowned Sundog Fine Art Bozeman, Montana collection and collected by Bruce VanLandingham. Bruce VanLandingham was a pillar in the American Indian collecting community and a respected expert. Along with being an avid collector, Bruce also was the sole owner of Sundog Fine Art Gallery in Bozeman, which was both part museum and gallery. Truly an outstanding example.
North American Auction Company
Feb. 13, 2022
Adam Clark Vroman Gelatin Silver Photograph
Est: $150 - $300
"Carson City, Piute Indians", circa 1900. Oval photograph printed on matte paper; tipped on backing paper. Pencil titled to the reverse. Appears in excellent condition. Butterfield & Butterfield consignment inventory label and lot tag to the mat reverse. Photograph 2" x 2 7/8" approx. Mount 2 3/4' x 3 1/4". Mat 14" x 11".
District Auction
Nov. 13, 2021
1901 Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) Gelatin Silver
Est: $12,500 - $17,500
Featured in this lot is this gelatin silver called "Hopi Town Snake Priest," from Adam Clark Vroman (born in 1856 and passed in 1916) circa 1901. The photograph shows a Hopi Native American Snake Priest in ceremonial garments with a squash blossom around his neck and carrying a dancing wand. This is an extremely prominent photograph taken during the Hopi Snake Dance, which is a 16-day ceremony to celebrate ancestry and pray for rainfall. The condition of this gelatin silver is good, with no obvious signs of damage. The measurements of this framed silver gelatin are 18 1/4" x 14 1/2" and the visible art measures 7 7/8" x 4 1/2". Provenance: From the renowned Sundog Fine Art Bozeman, Montana collection and collected by Bruce VanLandingham. Bruce VanLandingham was a pillar in the American Indian collecting community and a respected expert. Along with being an avid collector, Bruce also was the sole owner of Sundog Fine Art Gallery in Bozeman, which was both part museum and gallery. Truly an outstanding example.
North American Auction Company
Oct. 09, 2021
1901 Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) Gelatin Silver
Est: $12,500 - $17,500
Featured in this lot is this gelatin silver called "Hopi Town Snake Priest," from Adam Clark Vroman born in 1856 and passed in 1916 and circa 1901. The photograph shows a Hopi Native American Snake Priest in ceremonial garments with a squash blossom around his neck and carrying a dancing wand. This is a extremely prominent photograph taken during the Hopi Snake Dance, which is a 16-day ceremony to celebrate ancestry and pray for rainfall. The condition this gelatin silver is good with no obvious signs of damage and in good overall condition. The measurements of this framed silver gelatin are 18 1/4" x 14 1/2"and the visible art measures 7 7/8" x 4 1/2". Provenance: From the renowned Sundog Fine Art Bozeman, Montana collection and collected by Bruce VanLandingham. Bruce VanLandingham was a pillar in the American Indian collecting community and a respected expert. Along with being an avid collector, Bruce also was the sole owner of Sundog Fine Art Gallery in Bozeman, which was both part museum and gallery.
North American Auction Company
Mar. 11, 2021
(ADAM CLARK VROMAN) The American Indian Souvenir Playing Cards.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
(ADAM CLARK VROMAN) The American Indian Souvenir Playing Cards. Additional Images Complete deck of 52 playing cards (plus the Joker), each with vignetted reproductions of Vroman's photographs of Native Americans in the Southwest. Each image is captioned, and includes reproductions of Vroman's group as well as individual portraits, village views, and images of native peoples performing dances, in Walpi, Kivi, Laguna, and Acoma pueblos. Original gilt-lettered boards slipcase with an additionally affixed card, worn. Los Angeles: Lazarus & Melzer, 1900
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 06, 2021
ADAM CLARK VROMAN Mission San Fernando CA salt print
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
ADAM CLARK VROMAN, Mission San Fernando Rey de Espama, 1900, 6.5x9.5" salt print, Printed C. 1900, inscribed in pencil on print verso: 30 / 4. Many photographers around 1900 became interested in the historic process of salted paper printing. Vroman, a consumate chemist, revived the process for a short time in his own work as well. Photographer and Bookseller Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) was the leading photographer of the Pasadena, California Arroyo Culture. He was the first important American photographer to use platinum prints to emphasize modernist tones and abstraction. His straightforward portraits of Native Americans, views of ceremonies, architecture, lands and clouds bridge the ethnographic traditions of the 19th century with the objective vision of the 20th. He was the key Western American photographer using modern techniques and materials on living tribes and current traditions, rather than working in cultural preservation of a vanishing race. His landscape work is every bit as emotional as the later landscape work of Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Edward Weston, and Paul Strand. Vroman himself was a favorite subject of his own images while his unadorned straightforward portraits presage the work August Sander. In 1893 he moved to Pasadena and set up Vroman's Bookstore, still in operation, where he sold books as well as photography supplies. He photographed primarily in Arizona and New Mexico. He was not set up to generate revenue from his photography and the vast majority of his work was given by him in albums to his photography collaborators, or to scholars and anthropologists. His primary archive of over 1000 prints in albums are at the Pasadena Public Library and his negatives are at the Seaver Center, Los Angeles County Natural History Museum where the images are online. Andrew Smith Gallery has been the leading dealer and collector of Adam Clark Vroman since the first album if acquired in 1980. For a more detailed view of his life, work and materials: https://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/misc/western/vroman.html
Andrew Smith Gallery Photography Auctions, LLC
Feb. 06, 2021
ADAM CLARK VROMAN Mission San Fernando Calif
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
ADAM CLARK VROMAN, Capistrano Mission (Old Walls), c. 1897, 6.25x4" platinum print, Printed C. 1900, titled in ink on mount recto below image Vroman's distincitive handwriting: "Capistrano Mission" (Old Walls); inscribed in pencil: 3. Vroman was the leading platinum printer in America in the early 1900s. Platinum allowed him to emphasize graphic design qualities in ways that other available papers could not. The expansive San Juan Capistrano Mission was initially a small adobe chapel when it was established by Padre JunÃpero Serra on November 1, 1776. It was the second of 21 Spanish missions founded along the coast of California in the 18th and 19th centuries. The congregation of San Juan Capistrano expanded rapidly over the next 20 years, and in 1797, master stonemason Isidoro Aguilar began the work of replacing the mission's modest chapel with a colossal sandstone church designed to hold 1,300 people. The neoclassical church was laid out in the shape of a Latin cross with an 85 ft wide transept and 167 ft long nave; its roof was formed by eight shallow domes and topped by a 120-foot bell tower. Construction was completed by 1806, but on December 8, 1812, a violent earthquake caused the bell tower to collapse, killing 49 worshippers inside the church. That first catastrophic event began a tumultuous period in the history of the church. Only six years later, French pirates torched several of the mission's peripheral structures. After the declaration of Mexican Independence in 1821, the government expelled the Spanish from California and seized the mission for secular purposes. After the land it was on became part of the United States, the mission was returned to the Catholic Church in 1865 by Abraham Lincoln in a presidential decree. Credit: https://www.wmf.org/project/san-juan-capistrano-mission Photographer and Bookseller Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) was the leading photographer of the Pasadena, California Arroyo Culture. He was the first important American photographer to use platinum prints to emphasize modernist tones and abstraction. His straightforward portraits of Native Americans, views of ceremonies, architecture, lands and clouds bridge the ethnographic traditions of the 19th century with the objective vision of the 20th. He was the key Western American photographer using modern techniques and materials on living tribes and current traditions, rather than working in cultural preservation of a vanishing race. His landscape work is every bit as emotional as the later landscape work of Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Edward Weston, and Paul Strand. Vroman himself was a favorite subject of his own images while his unadorned straightforward portraits presage the work August Sander. In 1893 he moved to Pasadena and set up Vroman's Bookstore, still in operation, where he sold books as well as photography supplies. He photographed primarily in Arizona and New Mexico. He was not set up to generate revenue from his photography and the vast majority of his work was given by him in albums to his photography collaborators, or to scholars and anthropologists. His primary archive of over 1000 prints in albums are at the Pasadena Public Library and his negatives are at the Seaver Center, Los Angeles County Natural History Museum where the images are online. Andrew Smith Gallery has been the leading dealer and collector of Adam Clark Vroman since the first album if acquired in 1980. For a more detailed view of his life, work and materials: https://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/misc/western/vroman.html
Andrew Smith Gallery Photography Auctions, LLC
Feb. 06, 2021
ADAM CLARK VROMAN San Gabriel Mission CA 1908
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
ADAM CLARK VROMAN, The Bells at San Gabriel Mission, 1897, 6.25x4" platinum print, Printed C. 1900, titled in ink on mount recto below image Vroman's distincitive handwriting: "The Bells of San Gabriel" / (Pasadena) / in pencil: 4 [circled], Vroman was a primary photographer in the California movement to preserve the historic Spanish Missions. He generally gave his photographs to scholars promoting these goals. Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, also known as the San Gabriel Mission, is a former Roman Catholic mission and current historic landmark; it was the fourth of 21 California missions to be founded. The founding date was September 8, 1771, and Padres Pedro Benito Cambon and Angel Fernandes de la Somera were the founding priests. The mission was built from 1791 to 1805 out of cut stone, brick, and mortar, and is the oldest structure of its kind south of Monterey, CA. It was designed by Father Antonio Cruzado, and is often referred to as the "Godmother of the Pueblo of Los Angeles.. Father Cruzado gave the building its strong Moorish architectural influence, with capped buttresses and tall, narrow windows, which are unique among the missions of the California chain. In the early mission era, it came to be known as the "Pride of the Missions" and became the wealthiest of all the early missions due to its large production of crops and trading of cattle hides and wine. On October 1, 1987 the Whittier Narrows Earthquake heavily damaged the mission, but it was fully restored between 1987 and 1993. Today, San Gabriel possesses perhaps the finest collection of mission relics in existence. It has a hammered copper baptismal font that was the gift of King Carlos III of Spain in 1771, and six priceless altar statues that were brought around the Horn from Spain in 1791. Mission San Gabriel Arcangel was added in 1971 as a National Historic Landmark, building #71000158. It is also a California Historical Landmark, No. 158. Two addresses are given for the mission: 428 South Mission Drive, and 537 West Mission Drive at Junipero Street. Credit: https://calisphere.org/item/d8c5ee14803e533b46ff50c503d0ce40/ Photographer and Bookseller Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) was the leading photographer of the Pasadena, California Arroyo Culture. He was the first important American photographer to use platinum prints to emphasize modernist tones and abstraction. His straightforward portraits of Native Americans, views of ceremonies, architecture, lands and clouds bridge the ethnographic traditions of the 19th century with the objective vision of the 20th. He was the key Western American photographer using modern techniques and materials on living tribes and current traditions, rather than working in cultural preservation of a vanishing race. His landscape work is every bit as emotional as the later landscape work of Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Edward Weston, and Paul Strand. Vroman himself was a favorite subject of his own images while his unadorned straightforward portraits presage the work August Sander. In 1893 he moved to Pasadena and set up Vroman's Bookstore, still in operation, where he sold books as well as photography supplies. He photographed primarily in Arizona and New Mexico. He was not set up to generate revenue from his photography and the vast majority of his work was given by him in albums to his photography collaborators, or to scholars and anthropologists. His primary archive of over 1000 prints in albums are at the Pasadena Public Library and his negatives are at the Seaver Center, Los Angeles County Natural History Museum where the images are online. Andrew Smith Gallery has been the leading dealer and collector of Adam Clark Vroman since the first album if acquired in 1980. For a more detailed view of his life, work and materials: https://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/misc/western/vroman.html
Andrew Smith Gallery Photography Auctions, LLC
Oct. 22, 2020
(ADAM CLARK VROMAN) (1856-1916) The American Indian Souvenir Playing Cards.
Est: $700 - $1,000
(ADAM CLARK VROMAN) (1856-1916) The American Indian Souvenir Playing Cards. Additional Image Complete deck of 52 playing cards (plus the Joker), each with vignetted reproductions of Vroman's photographs of Native Americans in the Southwest. Each image is captioned, and includes reproductions of Vroman's group as well as individual portraits, village views, and images of native peoples performing dances, in Walpi, Kivi, Laguna, and Acoma pueblos. Original gilt-lettered boards slipcase with an additionally affixed card, worn. Los Angeles: Lazarus & Melzer, 1900
Swann Auction Galleries
Sep. 30, 2020
ADAM CLARK VROMAN Eagle Rock Petrified Forest AZ
Est: $800 - $1,200
ADAM CLARK VROMAN 922 ½ Eagle Rock, Petrified Forest, Az. , 1899, 6.2x8.1" Platinum Print on 8.5x6.5" Paper. From the John O'Hara Album. Verso in unknown hand "#186 Eagle Rock, Pet Forest." ASG# ACV/1287 A landmark formation collapsed in January 1941 after a heavy rain. Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) Photographer and Bookseller, was the leading photographer of the Pasadena, California Arroyo Culture. He was the first important American photographer to use platinum prints to emphasize modernist tones and abstraction. He was the key Western American photographer using modern techniques and materials on living tribes and current traditions, rather than working in cultural preservation of a vanishing race. His landscape work is every bit as emotional as the later landscape work of Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Edward Weston, and Paul Strand. In 1893 he moved to Pasadena and set up Vroman's Bookstore, still in operation, where he sold books as well as photography supplies. He photographed primarily in Arizona and New Mexico. The vast majority of his work was given to his photography collaborators, or to scholars and anthropologists. His primary archive of over 1,000 prints in albums are at the Pasadena Public Library and his negatives are at the Seaver Center, Los Angeles County Natural History Museum where the images are online. Andrew Smith Gallery has been the leading dealer and collector of Adam Clark Vroman since the first album it acquired in 1980. For a more detailed view of his life, work and materials: https://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/misc/western/vroman.html
Andrew Smith Gallery Photography Auctions, LLC
Sep. 30, 2020
ADAM CLARK VROMAN Navajo Boy ca. 1900
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
ADAM CLARK VROMAN Portrait Navajo Boy, ca. 1900, 6.7x4.7" Platinum Print, top hinged to 9x7" modern rag board. ASG# AVI/041 Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) Photographer and Bookseller was the leading photographer of the Pasadena, California Arroyo Culture. He was the first important American photographer to use platinum prints to emphasize modernist tones and abstraction. He was the key Western American photographer using modern techniques and materials on living tribes and current traditions, rather than working in cultural preservation of a vanishing race. His landscape work is every bit as emotional as the later landscape work of Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Edward Weston, and Paul Strand. In 1893 he moved to Pasadena and set up Vroman's Bookstore, still in operation, where he sold books as well as photography supplies. He photographed primarily in Arizona and New Mexico. He was not set up to generate revenue from his photography and the vast majority of his work was given to him in albums to his photography collaborators, or to scholars and anthropologists. His primary archive of over 1,000 prints in albums are at the Pasadena Public Library and his negatives are at the Seaver Center, Los Angeles County Natural History Museum where the images are online. Andrew Smith Gallery has been the leading dealer and collector of Adam Clark Vroman since the first album it acquired in 1980. For a more detailed view of his life, work and materials: https://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/misc/western/vroman.html
Andrew Smith Gallery Photography Auctions, LLC
May. 07, 2020
ADAM CLARK VROMAN: "ZUNI PUEBLO FROM THE SOUTHEAST"
Est: $300 - $500
silver halide print with labels verso Condition: not removed from frame Provenance: The Douglas & Eunice Goodan Living Trust purchased from the Dinosaur Ball, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, circa March 14, 1988 from the Adam Clark Vroman Collection 19 x 23 inches, sight
Abell Auction
Oct. 19, 2017
ADAM CLARK VROMAN (1856-1916) A presentation album titled Outings, H.E. Hoopes 1899-1900, with 75 platinum prints primarily portraying
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
ADAM CLARK VROMAN (1856-1916) A presentation album titled Outings, H.E. Hoopes 1899-1900, with 75 platinum prints primarily portraying country life around Media, Pennsylvania. The images include dimensional and finely detailed photographs made on hunting and fishing excursions (including participants posing with their game and in the landscape), serene lakes, pastoral views of cows in lush fields, and river views, as well as a few images from the capitol in Washington, D.C., and several compelling portraits. Platinum prints, 26 vignetted in an oval format and 49 rectilinear, the images measuring approximately 5x4 to 8x6 inches (12.7x10.2 to 20.3x15.2 cm.), and the reverse. 4to, elegant gilt-lettered and pictorial leather, lightly edgeworn; with marbled endpapers and interleafing sheets; all edges gilt. 1899-1900
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 20, 2017
(ADAM CLARK VROMAN) (1856-1916) The American Indian Souvenir Playing Cards.
Est: $800 - $1,200
(ADAM CLARK VROMAN) (1856-1916) The American Indian Souvenir Playing Cards. Complete deck of 52 playing cards, each with vignetted reproductions of photographs of Native Americans in the Southwest. With reproductions of Vroman''s group as well as individual portraits, village views, and images of native peoples performing dances, in Walpi, Kivi, Laguna, and Acoma pueblos. Original gilt-lettered boards slipcase, lightly worn. Los Angeles: Lazarus & Melzer, 1900
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 19, 2016
(ADAM CLARK VROMAN) (1856-1916) The American Indian Souvenir Playing Cards. Complete deck of 52 playing cards, each with vignetted repr
Est: $600 - $900
(ADAM CLARK VROMAN) (1856-1916) The American Indian Souvenir Playing Cards. Complete deck of 52 playing cards, each with vignetted reproductions of photographs of Native Americans in the Southwest. With reproductions of Vroman's group and individual portraits, village views, and images of native peoples performing dances, in Walpi, Kivi, Laguna, and Acoma pueblos. Original gilt-lettered boards slipcase, worn. Los Angeles: Lazarus & Melzer, 1900
Swann Auction Galleries
Aug. 19, 2015
Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) The American Indian souvenir playing cards in original case cabinet card: 8.5" x 5.25"
Est: $200 - $300
Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) The American Indian souvenir playing cards in original case produced by Lazurus & Melzer, Los Angeles, 1900 Together with: (WATKINS, CARLETON.) Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon hardbound book; An oversize cabinet card photograph of an Indian medicine show troupe by J. O. Hanigan; and a scrapbook relating to the Southwest given to L.H. Bigelow by Mr. & Mrs. D.C. Webb cabinet card: 8.5" x 5.25" Provenance: Swann Auction Galleries, 06 June 2002, Lots: 193 (playing cards), 194 (hardbound book) and 265 (cabinet card) Property from the Estate of Robert E. Beck, Murphysboro, Illinois
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Dec. 11, 2014
Adam Clark Vroman
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Adam Clark Vroman
Sotheby's
Jun. 01, 2014
Adam Clark Vroman (American, 1856-1914) Around Moki Towns, Chanting At Shrine, Flute Dance,
Est: $600 - $800
Adam Clark Vroman (American, 1856-1914) "Around Moki Towns, Chanting At Shrine, Flute Dance," c. 1900, vintage silver print, 5.75" x 7.75", unframed Provenance: Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico Acquired from the above by Robert E. Beck, August 11, 1995. Property from the Estate of Robert E. Beck, Murphysboro, Illinois
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Oct. 17, 2013
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) Pair of Native American portraits from the Southwest.
Est: $3,000 - $4,500
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) Pair of Native American portraits from the Southwest. Platinum prints, each measuring 6 1/2x4 1/2 inches (16.5x11.4 cm.), each with Vroman's numeric notation in the negative, and another numeric notation, in ink, on recto. 1899
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 01, 2011
Adam Clark Vroman (American, 1856-1916); Images of Navaho Men; (2)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Images of Navaho Men, c. 1901 Two platinum prints, each with numeric notation '543' and '549', respectively, in the negative, each framed. (2) 6 1/8 x 4 3/8in; 8 x 4 5/8in
Bonhams
Mar. 24, 2011
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) Lavish album titled "Arizona and New Mexico, Volume II."
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) Lavish album titled "Arizona and New Mexico, Volume II." With more than 165 platinum prints depicting the famous Snake Dance, dynamic portraits, Native American dwellings, landscapes, and Vroman's traveling party. Platinum prints, sizes approximately 6x8 (more than 90), 4 3/4x6 3/4 or 3 1/2x4 1/2 (both more than 30) inches (15.2x20.3, 12.1x17.1 or 8.9x11.4 cm.), and the reverse, many with Vroman's numeric notation in the negative and most with his calligraphic caption and number, in ink, in the margin; printed directly onto the album leaves. Oblong 4to, gilt-lettered 1/2 leather boards, slightly worn; with a Harper's Weekly article mounted to the preliminaries and another laid in. 1897
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 19, 2010
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) Extraordinary album titled "A Trip to Snake Dance, Moqui-Indian-towns, and Petrified Forests of Arizona.
Est: $30,000 - $45,000
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) Extraordinary album titled "A Trip to Snake Dance, Moqui-Indian-towns, and Petrified Forests of Arizona." With 76 platinum prints depicting the famous Snake Dance, dynamic portraits, Native American dwellings, landscapes, and Vroman's traveling party. Platinum prints, sizes approximately 6x8, 4 1/2x7 or 3 1/2x4 1/2 inches (15.2x20.3, 11.4x17.8 or 8.9x11.4 cm.), and the reverse, each with Vroman's numeric notation in the negative and his caption, in ink, in the margin; printed singly or doubly per page directly onto the album leaves, with the smallest sizes mounted in die-cut windows four per page. Oblong 4to, gilt-lettered 1/2 leather boards, just lightly worn, rebacked; with Wilberforce Eames's signature and a Harper's Weekly article mounted to the preliminaries. August 1895
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 19, 2010
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916), attributed to Album containing approximately 175 images of the Canadian Rockies including views of Banf
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916), attributed to Album containing approximately 175 images of the Canadian Rockies including views of Banff, Field, Laggan, Glacier and the Valley of Ten Peaks along with several images of the photographer's traveling party. Platinum prints, over 30 are hand-colored, approximately 3x5 to 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches (7.6x12.7 to 11.4x16.5 cm.), and the reverse, printed singly or doubly per page directly onto the album leaves, the majority titled, in ink, in the margin. Oblong 4to, buckram with a twin bolt binding. Circa 1909-1914
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 06, 2010
Platinum Print Album American West A C Vroman 1899
Est: $50,000 - $75,000
X-RARE WESTERN PLATINUM PRINT PHOTO ALBUM - Collection of (100) Images of the American West by Adam Clark Vroman (American, 1856-1916), bound as part of a series of (16) albums, containing images gathered while contracted by the government, this album is titled 'Pueblos- Taos to Isleta, 1899' and is marked 'A.C. Vroman', bound by Kingsley, Barnes & Neuner in LA in 3/4 leather with cloth covered boards. The Images are 6" x 8" on 9" x 12" sheets, each is numbered in the print and also numbered in the handwritten pencil caption in the lower margin, all in Vroman's own hand. These images were printed directly on the chemically treated paper by exposure to sunlight (technically Platinotypes), this was a time-consuming method, and Vroman made up a very limited number of these albums after completion of his work for the US Bureau of Ethnology in 1899. He had by then established a small book store in Pasadena where he sold these photos individually, and the library in that town is now the repository of his glass negatives and the only known complete set of these albums. This album contains (13) individual portraits of Native Americans, (4) images of dances and (2) images that feature Vroman himself, one of which is a 6 am image of his 'camp' on a desert plateau. The remainder are mostly of structures and landscapes in and around Taos, Picuris, San Juan, Santa Clara (including the Governor and his family), San Ildefonso (including Gov Francisco Vigil), Pojoaque (inc Gov Antonio Montaya), Nambe, Tseuque (inc Gov Elias Suazo), Cochie, Santo Domingo (inc Corn Dance, some portraits of dancers in costume), San Felipe, the Rio Grande, Santa Ana (inc image of the only three men in the Pueblo), Sia (inc Gov Antonio Sala), Jemez (inc Juan Pecos, the last of the Pecos), Sandia. Album binding is worn, leather chafed, contents are very good, each page is bound in by cloth tape, some cross-toning to backs but image sides are fine. An exceptional collection. From a Blue Hill Maine estate.
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Jan. 21, 2010
(Photography) Three volumes on photographers of
Est: $200 - $300
(Photography) Three volumes on photographers of the American West. Includes: Hickman, Paul and Terence Pitts. George Fiske, Yosemite Photographer. (4to) cloth, dust jacket (price clipped). First Edition. [1980]. * Mahood, Ruth I., ed. Photographer of the Southwest: Adam Clark Vroman, 1856-1916. (4to) cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. 1961. * Palmquit, Peter E. Carleton E. Watkins, Photographs 1861-1874. (4to), cloth, dust jacket. Watkins stereocard laid in (Dead Giant, Tuolumne Grove). First Edition. [1989]. Together 3 volumes. Various places: Various dates Some general wear; very good.
PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
Dec. 15, 2009
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK.
Est: -
Album containing 21 silver gelatin prints, each approx. 6 x 8 inches, mounted recto and verso, featuring images of California missions, the Petrified Forest, Moqui Indians and their pueblos, and views of the Los Angeles/Pasadena area, 1895-1900?, some images with mild oxidation and offset from adhesive, album spine perished, corners with loss. An attractive collection of views of California and the west by Vroman, including "Hopi towns, grinding corn, Twea (A126)," " Moqui Interpreter and Navajo (A128)," "Walpi (Moqui Town) from North (A121)," "In Third Petrified Forest, Pulpit Rocks," "Petrified Forest--one of the largest logs" (A136), "San Luis Rey Mission 8, the Altar," a variant image of 371, The Discarded Saints at San Gabriel Mission, a variant image of 373, the Fathers and Brothers of San Luis Rey at the Mission Door; plus images of the Mt. Lowe Railway and Eaton Falls in the Pasadena / Altadena area.
Bonhams
Dec. 15, 2009
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Hopi towns, grinding corn, Tewa, silver gelatin print, 5 1/16 x 7 11/16 inches, 1895, "no. 126 / Grinding Wheat" penciled on verso, faint stains, else excellent. An interesting image depicting two Hopi women taking a momentary rest from work, kachina dolls, a broom, a bow and arrows, etc. on the walls, and, curiously, a flash of feet (men's?) intruding into the right edge of the picture. Vroman captured this on his 1895 self-funded trip to the Hopi villages of Arizona.
Bonhams
Dec. 15, 2009
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK. 1856-1916.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
"William Gibson, The Hermit of Yosemite," platinum print, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, 1901, titled in pencil on verso, one corner with tiny crease, else fine. See illustration.
Bonhams
Dec. 08, 2009
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) "Hopi Town."
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) "Hopi Town." Platinum print, 7 3/4x5 1/4 inches (19.7x13.3 cm.), with the numeric notation "475" in the negative. Circa 1901
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 22, 2009
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) " 'The Moqui Snake Dance' (Before the Kisi)."
Est: $3,000 - $4,500
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) " 'The Moqui Snake Dance' (Before the Kisi)." Printing-out-paper print, 6x8 inches (15.2x20.3 cm.), with Vroman's caption, in ink and a numeric notation "A111," on mount recto. 1895
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 22, 2009
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) "'Walpi,' Moqui Town (from South)."
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1916) "'Walpi,' Moqui Town (from South)." Printing-out-paper print, 6x8 inches (15.2x20.3 cm.), with Vroman's caption, in ink and a numeric notation "A117," on mount recto. 1895
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 08, 2009
SUMNER W. MATTESON (1867-1920)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
SUMNER W. MATTESON (1867-1920) Jumbo, Died at Denver City Park, 1900 platinum print 1¼ x 1 7/8in. (3.2 x 4.8cm.)
Christie's
Oct. 08, 2009
SUMNER W. MATTESON (1867-1920)
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
SUMNER W. MATTESON (1867-1920) Building the Sand Painting and Altar in the Mishongnovi Antelope Kiva, Arizona, c. 1897-1901 platinum print title in pencil (on the verso) 3 x 3 7/8in. (7.5 x 10cm.)
Christie's
May. 14, 2009
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1914) Untitled (Hopis at the spring).
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
VROMAN, ADAM CLARK (1856-1914) Untitled (Hopis at the spring). Platinum print, 6x4 1/2 inches (15.2x11.4 cm.), with Vroman's numeric notation "484," in the negative and a numeric notation, in pencil, in an unknown hand, in the margin on recto. Circa 1900
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 07, 2008
Adam Clark Vroman , 1856-1916 oraibi woman at window
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
platinum print, numbered '72/2' in an unidentified hand in pencil in the margin, matted, 1902
Sotheby's