30s GEORGE HURRELL, GILBERT ROLAND, HAND SIGNED LTD ED

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

LEGENDARY GLAMOUR PHOTOGRAPHER

GEORGE HURRELL

A CLASSIC IMAGE

LEADING MEN, HOLLYWOOD

GILBERT ROLAND

1939

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION PORTFOLIO PRINT

A VERY MODEST OPENING PRICE HAS BEEN PLACED ON THIS BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH WHICH IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

George Hurrell

(American, 1904 -1992)

“Gilbert Roland,” 1939, printed 1980. Original limited edition portfolio print from Portfolio III, 19 x 15 1/2 inches

(paper size, 16 1/8 x 20  inches). 

Signed and numbered by the artist in ink on the margin: 123/250 (lower left margin) – Hurrell” (lower right margin). This is print number 123 from a signed and numbered edition of 250 original gelatin silver prints in 16 x 20 size.

Condition: Excellent

No tears, no creases, no dings. Not trimmed.

A classic image and a beautiful signed and numbered portfolio print.

Provenance: Established gallery in Los Angeles specializing in photographic prints for over thirty years. Unframed.

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GEORGE HURRELL 

(American, 1904 -1992)

The following bio courtesy of the Tacoma Art Museum: http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.aspx?hid=511

Unseen Hurrell: Classics and Rediscovered Photographs from the Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences

January 9 - March 18, 2001

“The name George Hurrell became synonymous with the glamorous and seductive photographs from the Hollywood studios of the 1930s and 40s. The brash young photographer set the mood for the film industry, capturing the stars of the era with dramatic settings and innovative lighting and camera techniques. Working with M.G.M., Warner Brothers, and Columbia Studios, Hurrell created the most memorable photographs of Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Jean Harlow, and Jane Russell. This exhibition of black-and-white photographs, showed his "publicity stills" as a skillful adaptation combining art and commerce. Hurrell would say that he tried to "bring out the best, conceal the worst, and leave something to the imagination." These images helped create the illusions that softened the realities of the Depression and World War II, and sustained the public through the establishment of the television era. This exhibition was from the Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in Los Angeles.”

The above bio courtesy of the Tacoma Art Museum: http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.aspx?hid=511

GEORGE HURRELL

(American, 1904-1992)

The following bio courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Photography: http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/hurrell_george.php

“George Hurrell was a studio photographer in Hollywood starting in the late 1920s. Created with an 8×10 view camera and heavily retouched by hand, his portraits made the beautiful look perfect, and enhanced – or even made – Hollywood careers with shots carefully calculated to match the screen personas of his subjects. This portrait of Bette Davis is from a portfolio of stars including Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, and Mae West. Its richly smooth texture is evocative of painted portraits and epitomizes what Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in a statement accompanying the portfolio, referred to as the “honest, yet idealized, glamour” of Hurrell’s pictures.

George Hurrell was born in Covington, Kentucky in 1904. He studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1920s, moving on to California where he was commissioned to photograph artists working in Laguna Beach. Hurrell soon discovered that he could make a living taking portraits, and by the 1930s he was photographing Hollywood’s major movie stars. His photographs, showcased at museums throughout the world and in numerous publications, are also represented in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the International Center for Photography, New York; the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among many others.”

The above bio courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Photography: http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/hurrell_george.php

COLLECTIONS:

George Hurrell’s work is represented in many major museum collections, nationally and internationally.

GILBERT ROLAND, HOLLYWOOD FILM STAR

(American, b. Mexico, 1905 – 1994, Beverly Hills, Calif.)

Please view the bio on Gilbert Roland by goldensilents.com:

http://www.goldensilents.com/stars/gilbertroland.html

Please check out the Gilbert Roland obit in the Independent written by Kevin Brownlow in 1994:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-gilbert-roland-1436855.html

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