Photography 1957-1985 |
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Emerson Woelffer
Sizes vary, on 11 x 14 inch paper, 1965
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Also a lens test, this 35mm portrait of the painter Emerson Woelffer was taken in the garden of Woelffer's Los Angeles home. Woelffer was a leading painter among the California abstract painters and had a long teaching career: Institute of Design, Chicago, 1942-49; Black Mountain College, 1949; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1950-56 (during which time he met Sommer at the Aspen Photo Conference of 1951); Chouinard Arts Institute, Los Angeles, California, 1959-1969; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, 1969-1973; and Otis Art Institute, 1974-1989. |
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