Surf Sequence

The Vernon Oral History Project
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Surf Sequence

United States, circa 1940, printed after 1972
Photographs
Gelatin silver print
Image: 11 × 13 1/8 in. (27.94 × 33.34 cm) Primary support: 11 × 13 1/8 in. (27.94 × 33.34 cm) Secondary support: 15 15/16 × 20 in. (40.48 × 50.8 cm) Mat: 18 × 22 in. (45.72 × 55.88 cm)
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation and Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin (M.2008.40.49.1)
Photography
Not currently on public view

History

Collectors Marjorie and Leonard Vernon prized Ansel Adam’s Surf Sequence and were close friends with the artist....
Collectors Marjorie and Leonard Vernon prized Ansel Adam’s Surf Sequence and were close friends with the artist. Stephen White, collector, curator, and former proprietor of the Stephen White Gallery in Los Angeles, wrote of the relationship the Vernon’s shared with Adams:

"They were very proud of the Ansel Adams Surf Sequence, and also they felt very close to Adams and had their own relationship with him. They were very involved with The Friends of Photography (founded by Adams, based in Carmel), and they always had a wall of Adams up and a kind of West Coast tradition."
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Bibliography

  • Road Trip: Photography of the American West: Photographies XIXe-XXIe Siècles du Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.