Lot 380: PIRKLE JONES

PIRKLE JONES 1914-2009 'COMPOSITION, BACK YARD, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA' (GARDEN DETAIL) mounted, signed in pencil, the photographer's '2279 - 40th Avenue, San Francisco 16, Calif.' studio stamp and a 'Photography Collection of the Polaroid Corporation' label, with typed title, credit, and process and accession information in ink, on the reverse, 1947, printed no later than 1957 ( California Photographs , p. 89) 6 1/4 by 8 1/8 in. (15.9 by 20.7 cm.)

Acquired from the photographer in May 1957 for the Library Collection

Another print of this image, in the collection of Paul Hertzmann and Susan Herzig, bears the alternative title, 'Outside Ansel Adams's Darkroom, San Francisco.'