id: 170201 accession number: 2012.381 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.381 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:32.960000 San Francisco from Fairmont Hotel, c. 1925. William E. Dassonville (American, 1879–1957). Gelatin silver print; image: 22.7 x 24.5 cm (8 15/16 x 9 5/8 in.); paper: 27.7 x 31.4 cm (10 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2012.381 title: San Francisco from Fairmont Hotel title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1925 creation date earliest: 1920 creation date latest: 1930 current location: creditline: Gift of George Stephanopoulos copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * William E. Dassonville (American, 1879–1957) - artist William E. Dassonville American, 1879-1957 William Dassonville (born in Sacramento) was a pictorial photographer active in San Francisco during the first two decades of the 20th century. In addition to the pictorial work he produced for exhibition, Dassonville operated a professional portrait studio. A member of the California Camera Club, he gave lectured on art photography and contributed articles to Camera Craft, a photographic journal affiliated with the club. He exhibited his work in the first three San Francisco Photographic Salons (1901-3), as well as in other salons in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. After losing all of his work in the 1906 earthquake, Dassonville left San Francisco for the Sierra Nevada. He later returned to the city, reestablishing his studio and exhibiting his photographs made in the mountains. In the early 1920s he began making photographic paper for his own use and in 1924 gave up his studio to concentrate on the manufacture of "Dassonville" paper. M.M. --- measurements: Image: 22.7 x 24.5 cm (8 15/16 x 9 5/8 in.); Paper: 27.7 x 31.4 cm (10 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Stamped in blue ink on verso: "Estate of/William E. Dassonville" Written in pencil on verso: "SF from Telegraph Hill"-per Michael Mattis, this SHOULD say "SF from Fairmont Hotel" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America opening date: 2015-09-05T00:00:00 Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 5, 2015-January 17, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES