De Cock was born in Belgium and moved to the U. In the late 1950s. She became Ansel Adams assistant in the 1960s. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 and had important exhibitions at the George Eastman House, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Amon Carter Museum. The following is from the Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, California. Under the guidance of Ansel Adams and with a 4 x 5 inch camera lent to her by the artist, De Cock began photographing the landscape and soon developed a unique vision and printing style which utilizes the full tonal scale of the medium with a strong attention to the melancholic values. In his introduction to her 1973 monograph, Adams writes; De Cock presents to us a personal, private world. It is a world of individualistic beauty and intensity. This world is found in both her vision and subsequent prints. De Cock was awarded numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972. Her photographs were exhibited in important solo exhibitions at the George Eastman House (1970), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1971), and the Amon Carter Museum (1973). De Cock’s work is in numerous major collections. Prints of this photograph, titled “Barn and Smokestacks, Moss Landing, California, 1969″ are in the collections of the Norton Simon Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University, and the Center for Creative Photography. The photograph offered here is signed on the mount lower right and is signed and identified on the back of the mount and dated 1983 (likely when it was printed). It is in very good condition, is mounted to backing, and measures 13.75″ x 18.25″. Please see my other auctions for more fine paintings and prints. The item “Liliane de Cock’69 Signed Photograph of California Smokestacks Listed Artist” is in sale since Monday, November 2, 2015. This item is in the category “Art\Art Photographs”. The seller is “kgrinder” and is located in Holliston, Massachusetts. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Original/Reprint: Original Print
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Signed?: Unsigned
- Time Period Manufactured: 1950-Now
- Production Technique: Gelatin Silver
- Subject: Landscape
- Color: Black & White
- Framing: Matted
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Large (Greater than 10in.)
- Photographer: Liliane de Cock