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Ralph B. Bonwit

Looking East

1925

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Ralph B. Bonwit

Looking East

1925

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 258 × 226 mm. (10 3/16 × 8 7/8 in.) Other (Mat): 18 × 14 in. (45.7 × 35.6 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Elinor B. Cahn, Baltimore, in Memory of her Brother, Willard R. Bonwit
Object Number 1993.171
The artist to his daughter, Elinor B. Cahn
'London Salon of Photography,' London, 1925

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Gallery D (Monument Street), 1/26

'9th International Salon of Photography,' Camera Pictorialist, L.A., 1/3-1/31/26

'XXIc Salon International D'Art Photographique,' Paris, 10/26; '13th Pittsburgh Salon,' Photographic Society of Philadelphia, 1926

'4th International Exhibition,' San Francisco, 1926

'Individual Prints Maryland Statewide' (two second prize awards), 1926

One man exhibition, California Camera Club, 1927

'8th Annual Salon of Photography,' Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., 1/27

'Special Exhibition,' Chicago Camera Club, 4/27

'The American Photographic Salon,' L.A., 1927

'Salon International d'Art Photographique,' Bruxelles, 1927

'4th Annual International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography,' Seattle Camera Club, 6/28; 'Secondo Salon Italiano d'Art Fotografica Internazionale,' Torino, 10/6-11/4/28

'One Man Exhibition,' Cleveland Photo Society, 1928; Portland Salon, Me., 1928

'First Chicago International Photographic Salon,' Chicago, 5/29

Second Rochester International Salon of Photography, the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, December 1930.

Jan Howard, BMA, "A Century of American Photography: A Decade of BMA Acquisitions," 22 October 1997 - 11 January 1998.

Inscribed: MOUNT FACE: (pencil), on paper attached to frame, LC, 'BONWIT/25'; MOUNT VERSO: (pencil), ULC, 'No. 2/'LOOKING EAST'(underlined)/(BROMIDE)'; URC, '85'; C, 'Come Again/Oer(underlined)/RALPH B. BONWIT,/2304 EUTAW PLACE,/BALTIMORE MD.'; (orange crayon), right side, '21'; (pencil), LLC, '28': 15 exhibition salon labels affixed to verso of mount (see photocopy of verso)

Artist

Ralph B. Bonwit

born Chicago, IL 1895; died Baltimore, MD 1935

born Chicago, IL 1895; died Baltimore, MD 1935
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