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C 1900 La Huffman Framed Photograph Signed MontanaThanks to all our ebay bidders, we are honored to be your one-stop, 5 star source for vintage pin-up, pulp magazines, original illustration art, decorative collectibles and ephemera with a wide and always changing assortment of antique and vintage items from the victorian, art nouveau, art deco, & mid-century modern eras. All items are 100% guaranteed to be original, vintage, and as described. Please feel free to contact us with any and all questions about the items and our policies and please take a moment to peruse our other great ebay listings. All sell no reserve! Item you are bidding on an incredible large format gelatin silver sepia toned hand signed and titled western americana photograph by l. A. Huffman showing the western rocky mountain trespasses in montana specifically. The work is extraordinary and shows a vintaeg cowboy surveying a herd of cattle the caption reads the spear cut big wolf montana and this original antique gelatin silver large format photograph is signed in white grease pencil lower right by the photographer l a huffman. A recent coffee table type fine art book was published on the photographer with his montana views and images.
This is remarkable museum quality example it retains it's original wide profile gesso frame and has old wavy glass and backing cardboard. In warm deep sepia tones a arre old original antique document that is sure to please measures 26 1/2 x 17 1/4 image measures 22 x 13 this is a honey! 100% guaranteed original and vintage. Condition this is in fine condition displays just beautifully and is a true treasure. Good luck to all and to all good luck. A bio followslaton. lAton huffman arrived in miles city, montana territory in december of. 1879. He was 25 years old and had come to seek the recently vacated. Position of post photographer at nearby fort keogh. Fort. Keogh was a military post established shortly after the custer incident. In 1876 to prvoide a military presence in eastern montana. He was appointed.Post photographer, an unpadi position that provided a dirt floor log. Studio and an opportunity ot make and sell photographs. This was a rapidly changing time in montana's history. Hostilities between. Early settlers and natiev americans were drawing to a close and reservation.
Life was beginning. The demise of the great buffalo herds was near, clearing the way for large scale cattle ranching. The railroad. Arrived in miles city in 1881 and changed everything.
The arrival. Of large numbers of farmers with their plows and fences wolud permanently.
Alter the landscape of eastern montana. During all of this, huffman.
Was there taking photographs landscapes, animals, early ranches, street. Scenes and, especially, people doing their work. His photos of. Buffalo hunting taken between 1880 83 are some of the few thta exist. And are among the most historically significant images he produced.
By far his most extensive and complete body of work relates to the cattle industry. And its associated activities. He photographed the beginning, heyday, and. End of the open range days. In addition to his skill and artistry as a.
Photographer, he was able ot incorporate his previous experiences as a rancher. He participated in roundups, helped with the activities and knew many of the. Area's ranchers and cowboys. His ability to anticiptae the action helped. Him to be in the right place at the right time. His early action-stopping photos, many taken from his four legged tripod, are unequaled. Huffman approached his work with the eye of an artist and the perspective of. An historian, a rare combination. Western historian j.
Evetts haley. Perhaps said it best for sheer versatility of significant and historic. Subject matter close to the range of the grass, (huffman's collection) surpasses. Them all. In 1976 huffman wsa inducted into the hall of great westerners. At the national cowboy and western heritage center in oklahoma city, oklahoma. He. Remains the only photographer to have received that honor. Huffman died in 1931 at the age of 77. He took many of his msot important. Photos in the early 1880's. He did os with relatively crude equipment and. Technology, yet produced images of a quality that could not be bettered today. He. Photographed the west as it was the unvarnished truth, not romanticized. Versions as depictde by novelists, artists and hollywood. Huffman left. An unmatched visual record of early montana. The importance adn appreciation. Of his artistic legayc will increase with each passing generation. |
