LAURA GILPIN The Hughes House, Denver Colorado 1928 Gelatin Silver print 7.5x9.6" on 8x10" paper ASG# LG/1343. Print is cornered in original Gilpin mat and signed and dated over mat in Gilpin's hand. Photograph by Laura Gilpin Colorado Springs verso of print. Print had been mounted down with tape when found and there is tape residue on mount and print margins. The print is a light gray blue tone to harmonize with this pictorial rendering. She made a series of views houses in Denver designed by the firm Fisher and Fisher.

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) photographed the American Southwest for more than sixty years, creating an extraordinary document of the land and its people. A contemporary of Mary Austin, Willa Cather, and Georgia O'Keeffe, she was unique among the women chroniclers of the Southwest in that photography was her medium of expression.

Gilpin was born on April 22, 1891, in Austin Bluffs, Colorado. After studying photography with Clarence White in New York she returned to Colorado to photograph the place she knew best. Through the early 1930's she produced a series of platinum and silver print masterpieces on textured paper in the pictorial tradition of Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence White, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier and others. These photographs are exemplary of the finest early twentieth century photo-secession art movement. Beginning in the early 1930's and continuing throughout her life, she made sharper edged images of the Pueblo and Navaho Indians and landscapes of unparalleled beauty of the Southwest. She moved to Santa Fe in the mid 1940s where she resided until her death in 1979. Andrew Smith who grew up in Santa Fe was a friend of Gilpin's in the 1970s, visiting with her and purchasing photographs from her.

Excellent. Minor wear