Californie

1910 · 51357 — San Francisco: Worden Art Goods Pictures Framing 312 Stockton Street ca. 1910. One large original silver gelatin photograph hand-painted & coloured by Worden sized 16 x 20 in. framed by Worden’s gallery in beautiful Arts & Crafts frame sized 21 x 25.5 in. retaining the original plaster hanger and silk braid now reinforced with modern coated wire and retaining the original studio label on back. This exceptional photograph provides a fantastic example of the abilities of Worden 1868-1946 at the height of his career and just before he was appointed one of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition’s official photographers. This haunting image records the walkway and arches of the mission in some disrepair with ivy growing on some of the pillars occasional adobe bricks crumbling from the uprights and an exceptional sharpness of the image. Worden grew up in Philadelphia studied painting at the PAFA and became a photographer while serving in the Spanish-American War. In 1902 after the war he established his studio near the Presidio and began photographing views of San Francisco’s Coastline Golden Gate Park Chinatown the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire and later hand-painting or colouring the images for sale. See: De Young Golden Gate Park Portals of the Past: The Photographs of Willard Worden July 25 2015 - February 15 2016 Gallery 12. Worden Art Goods, Pictures, Framing, 312 Stockton Street, unknown