Provenance

(Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA), 2000; NGA purchase, 2024.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on mount in graphite: Kemmler; lower left: "Oil Drums"; on verso, signed by artist, upper left in black ink on applied paper: Mrs. Florence Schneider / 4538- 59th St. / San Diego, Calif. / #6- Oil Drums; upper left in blue ink: formerly, Miss Florence B. Kemmler, / 3150 Logan Ave., / San Diego, Calif. / # 7 [crossed out] 6 - Oil Drums. [underlined] [in graphite underlined: chloro-Bromide]; upper center in graphite: No.6-P.7; upper right: 8 / 4; center left printed in black ink on applied label: 2ND / ANNUAL / PACIFIC / COAST / PHOTOGRAPHIC / SALON / CAMERA ENTHUSIASTS / OF SAN DIEGO / 1929; by artist, center left in blue ink: Seattle Salon 1929.; center: London (England) Salon 1929. / Gothenburg (Sweden) Salon 1929. / Antwerpen, Belgium '29-'30.; center printed in black ink on applied label: THIS CERTIFIES THAT THIS / IS ONE OF THE 137 PRINTS / CHOSEN BY THE CAMERA PIC / TORIALISTS OF LOS ANGELES / FOR EXHIBITION IN THEIR / 13TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL / SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY / JANUARY " 1930; center right printed in black ink on applied label: The / Syracuse Salon / Third International / 1931 / CAMERA CLUB / OF / SYRACUSE / Y. M. C. A. / MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS / Syracuse, New York / January 2-31, 1931 / This Print Accepted and Exhibited; lower left printed in black ink on applied label: PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL / SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ART / PORTLAND AND EUGENE, ORE., U. S. A. / SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1929 / THIS PRINT, No, [by unknown hand in blue ink: 107] WAS ACCEPTED; by artist, lower center in blue ink: Tallinn, Estonia 1929. / Chicago, Ill. 1930. / Portland, Me. 1930. / Stockholm, Sweden 1930 / Boston, Mass. 10th Competition '30 (Hon. mention) / Buenos Aires, Argentina. '30. / Associated Camera Clubs of Am. 2nd Travel Salon '30. / Keighley, Eng. 1930. / P.P.A. Travel Salon 1930. / Manchester, Eng. 1930/31. / Zaragoza, Spain 1930. / Syracuse, N.Y. 1931. / Preston, Eng. 1931. / Scottish Natl. Salon. Dunfermline 1931 / Torino, Italy 1931 / Maidstone, Eng. 1931; lower right printed in brown ink on applied paper: THIS PRINT was / accepted for the / Congress Exhibition held / under the auspices of The / Photographers Association / of the Pacific Northwest, / Vancouver, Canada / September, 1931