Jasper52 sets focus on Exclusive Photography and Prints, March 19

Ralph Eugene Meatyard, ‘Untitled (Figure with Wall),’ est. $2,500-$3,000
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, ‘Untitled (Figure with Wall),’ est. $2,500-$3,000
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, ‘Untitled (Figure with Wall),’ est. $2,500-$3,000

NEW YORK – Works by Ralph Eugene Meatyard, J. Walter Collinge and Aaron Siskind will likely earn top lot status in Jasper52’s Exclusive Photography and Prints auction, which will be conducted on Saturday, March 19 starting at 7 pm Eastern time. Other artists represented in the tightly-curated 50-lot sale include George Platt Lynes, Ruth Bernhard, Jose Alemany, William F. Simpson, Hector Cecchini, Rennie Weber, Mitchel Obremski, Nickolas Muray, the Harcourt Studio, William C. Odiorne, Petr Helbich, Ed Hayes, the A.N. Studio, Hortense Schulze, Kim Hanson, Edwin Avery Field, Norman Kulkin, Rovere Scott, Stanislav Dolezel, Don Longanecker, Maurice Goldberg, Martin Tarter, Norman Van Pelt, Sun Yee Lee, Jerry Stiles, Ray Hand, Trudy Jacobs, Jeri Lawson, and some whose names have been lost to history. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Amon Carter Museum receives bequest from Finis Welch collection

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 9. ‘Levitation #99,’ 1954, gelatin silver print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch, © Aaron Siskind Foundation
Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 9. ‘Levitation #99,’ 1954, gelatin silver print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch, © Aaron Siskind Foundation
Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 9. ‘Levitation #99,’ 1954, gelatin silver print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch, © Aaron Siskind Foundation

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) today announced the acquisition of more than 240 photographs and works on paper that significantly expand the Museum’s renowned photography and works on paper holdings. A bequest from the estate of Texas economist, entrepreneur, and collector Finis Welch, who passed away in 2020, the gift includes prints by Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and more, which together greatly strengthen the Carter’s ability to tell the story of early photographic modernism in America. Works on paper by Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Lewis Rubenstein, and Rufino Tamayo add dimension to existing collection holdings by these artists, while three works by abstract expressionist Robert Motherwell are the first prints by the artist to enter the collection.

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