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Julia E. Hoffman: a family album. Organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art October 27 - December 31 1977. The Julia E. Hoffman Gallery School of the Arts and Crafts Society of Portland Oregon. February 1-25 1978.

1977 · 63602 — San Francisco: Museum of Modern Art 1977. 4to. 47 1 pp. 74 photo plates decorated initials. Publisher’s brown pebbled faux calf cloth decorative gilt Holly Hocks border & lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine rounded corners NF copy. First edition of this exhibition catalogue for the photographs shot by Julia Hoffman 1856-1934 noted Arts & Crafts painter sculptor metal worker weaver and photographer whose exhibition and art classes in Portland OR heavily influenced the Pacific Northwest as well as the eventual establishment of the Oregon College of Art & Craft and was the first lifetime member in 1902 for the Portland Art Association precursor to the Portland Art Museum. Her photos exhibited here capture family life the interiors of the home on 714 Everett Street Yellowstone fishing trips and childhood exuberance. These photos were donated to the San Francisco MOMA by renowned designer decorator Margery Hoffman Smith who was Assistant Director of the WPA in Oregon in the 1930’s and was responsible for the historic interiors of Timberline Lodge at Mount Hood. Museum of Modern Art, hardcover