Leopold Hugo, Ghost Ship, c. 1920. vintage gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches on a 14 x 12 artist mount. Signed on the mount recto.

Condition: small bend to mount corner, and surface spotting, otherwise fine, no major condition issues.

Black and white ocean view with ship, rare pictorial seascape image.

Biography:

German-born Leopold Hugo settled with his wife in La Jolla, California, in 1907. They opened a grocery store, but by 1911 Hugo had hung out his shingle as a photographer of landscapes and nature studies. He worked in the soft-focus Pictorialist style, using waxed-paper negatives to enhance the atmospheric effects in his prints.

Six years later the Hugos relocated north to Santa Cruz, where Hugo opened a studio and became known locally for his photographs of cypress and eucalyptus trees along the Monterey coast. In 1929 he returned to La Jolla and re-established his studio there.

biography source: J. Paul Getty Website

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