Lot 18
Jay Dusard (American, b. 1937). "The California Vaquero" including 12 photographs with letterpress text and endpapers on archival papers, published in 2005 by Cattle Track Press. Edition 1 of 90. Hand-signed in pencil with edition number on copyright page. Each photograph hand-signed and dated 2002 or 2003 in pencil on verso. An impressive portfolio that includes 12 Jay Dusard photographs of contemporary vaquero or cowboy culture in California, all digitally captured and in their original custom clamshell case. As Jay Dusard writes: "My portrait subjects exemplify California's fabulous vaquero traditions of fine horsemanship, handling of cattle with finesse and ease, and consummate skill with rope and reata. Given the downright beauty and elegance of their working gear - saddles, bridles, bits, spurs - one might be inclined to think of them as fashionable anachronisms. But, their milieu is not some kind of Vaquero Williamsburg. It's contemporary reality where working landscapes are revered, protected, and productive." Size of case: 14.9" L x 12.1" W (37.8 cm x 30.7 cm)
Jay Dusard was born in 1937 in Saint Louis and raised on a farm in southern Illinois. He studied architecture at the University of Florida and was awarded a travel scholarship to study American architecture, coast to coast, which began his fascination with the American West. Spending two years in the peacetime army, Dusard used his off-duty hours to "cowboy" near Fort Hood, Texas and eventually found a job on an Arizona-Sonora border ranch. He began to study photography in 1965, while working in architecture and cartography in Tucson, Arizona, and a year later developed an interest in large-format cameras and landscapes. He met photographer Frederick Sommer (1905-1999), who became his mentor and paved the way for him to teach photography for seven years at Prescott College.
Dusard was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship which allowed him to pursue the working cowboy, buckaroo, and vaquero as a photographic subject. The resulting body of work was published in "The North American Cowboy: A Portrait" (1983). His second book, "Open Country," was awarded third place in the 1994 Photographic Book of the Year competition. In 2005, he collaborated with writer Thomas McGuane on "Horses." A documentary by Michael Markee, "Jay Dusard: Keeping the West Western," premiered at the Sedona International Film Festival in 2006.
Dusards work has been exhibited at several public institutions among them, the Phoenix Art Museum, Glenbow Museum (Calgary), Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Consejo Mexicano de Fotografia (Mexico City), Art Museum of South Texas, and the International Photography Hall of Fame (Oklahoma City). His work is included in the permanent collections of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Phoenix Museum of Art, the Museum of South Texas, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Booth Museum of Western Art, and the Charles M. Russell Museum, as well as several private and corporate collections.
Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010
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- Condition: Hand-signed in pencil with edition number on copyright page. Each photograph hand-signed and dated 2002 or 2003 in pencil on verso. A few very minor indentations to clamshell case, but all photographs and pages are in excellent overall condition.
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