Alma Lavenson
Union Oil Tanks

Union Oil Tanks

© Alma Lavenson Archive. All Rights Reserved.

Union Oil Tanks
Union Oil Tanks
ArtistAmerican, 1897–1989
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Union Oil Tanks
Date1931
PlaceOakland, California, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 13/16 × 8 in. (27.4 × 20.3 cm)
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 8 in. (27.4 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Mundy Companies
Object number83.1
Non exposé

Explore Further

Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Along with Imogen Cunningham and Ansel Adams, Alma Lavenson was a member of Group f/64, a San Francisco-based photographic organization dedicated to a new aesthetic of sharply focused, carefully composed images. Unlike the other f/64 photographers who chose the natural world as their primary subject, Lavenson gravitated toward the industrial, as with the large oil tanks pictured here. According to the artist, “I never took them as machinery. I always saw them as a composition of some sort.”



Provenance[David Mancini Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1983.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
no apparent inscriptions

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Second Hand Store—Sonora
Alma Lavenson
1940
Gelatin silver print
2002.1522
Self-Portrait
Alma Lavenson
1932
Gelatin silver print
2015.635
cropped recto of print
Alma Davenport-Dailey
1970
Gelatin silver print
88.402.17
Untitled
Alma Davenport-Dailey
c. 1978
Dye diffusion transfer print
2002.862
Alma Davenport-Dailey
c. 1978
Dye diffusion transfer print
2002.856
Untitled
Alma Thomas
1970
Acrylic on wove paper
2023.571
Untitled
Alma Thomas
1970
Acrylic on wove paper
2023.570
Tank Man - Chinese man stands in front of tanks, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
Jeff Widener
June 5, 1989
Thermal transfer print
2015.449
Smoothing out trench-tops with tanks; Central Front
Mark Markov-Grinberg
1943, printed 1960's-1970's
Gelatin silver print
96.730
Tanks in Procession
Georgy Petrusov
1930s
Gelatin silver print
2002.1834
Artillery Factory (Forging tanks against the Fascists)
Anatoly Skurikhin
1942
Gelatin silver print
95.370