Dec 17, 2024 - Sale 2691

Sale 2691 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
WILLIAM GARNETT (1916-2006)
Sewage Treatment Tank, Santa Paula, California. 1953.
Silver print, the image measuring 13½x10¼ inches (34.3x26 cm.), flush mounted, with Garnett's credit stamp with the date "1953," the title in pencil, and Peter Pollack's Art Institute Chicago stamp, on verso.

Provenance
The Collection of Neil Robert Berzak

Peter Pollack, a photography historian, author and art curator, was a prominent member of the art community in Chicago. He served as Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1945 to 1957 and then director of the American Federation of Arts.