WILLIAM CLIFT Knox County Court House, Vincennes, Indiana 1976 Gelatin Silver print 9.5x7.5" on 17x14.3" ASG# WC2/1052 ply mount signed below print right, Douglas Kenyon Inc Chicago label verso. Printed c.1980
This Indiana Courthouse image was made for the Bicentennial of 1976.

The Seagram County Court House Archives, a collection of more than 11,000 photographic negatives and 2,500 master prints, was presented as a gift, with its copyright ownership, to the Library of Congress in 1980 by Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc. To mark the Bicentennial of the United States of America, Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc. commissioned twenty-four photographers to record more than 1,100 county court houses using both color and black and white film. The project, directed by Phyllis Lambert and edited by Richard Pare, created the most comprehensive survey to date of a type of American building. Credit Library of Congress

William Clift (b. Boston 1944 resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico) Clift started taking pictures at the age of ten, developing them himself in a darkroom. He took his first photography workshop with Paul Caponigro at fifteen, becoming the youngest member of the Association of Heliographers: a New York cooperative established by some of the most influential American art photographers of the 1960s, including Walter Chappell, Paul Caponigro, Marie Cosindas and Carl Chiarenza. Two of his primary subjects are Mt. St. Michel off the coast of Northern France and Shiprock in northeastern New Mexico.

https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/artists/an-interview-with-photographer-william-clift

Excellent. Minor wear, one-quarter inch scratch visible in raking light