Sunset by Karl A. Baumgaertel
Sunset
Karl A. Baumgaertel
Title
Sunset
Artist
Year
1931
Technique
vintage chlorobromide photograph
Image Size
6 1/4 x 9" image
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
not stated
Annotations
titled and dated; inscribed: "To Miss Gertrude Bedke / With best wishes / Karl A. Baumbgaertel / 1931
Reference
Paper
cream, toothy wove
State
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
15778
Price
$800.00
Description
Karl A. Baumgaertel. American: (?-1958) was an accomplished salon photographer active in San Francisco and in Utah in the 1930s. He was a member of the Pictorial Photographers of America who exhibited in the Pittsburgh Salon of Photographic Art, the Chicago Camera Club Century of Progress International Photographic Salon (1933), and the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. His photgraphic archive is at the Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA This print is inscribed to "Miss Gertrude Bedke, with best wishes" and dated 1931.