1. STEVE CROUCH, Early Morning, Big Sur [Hills], c. 1970s, 6.75x8.5" gelatin silver print, Printed c. 1970s, signed in pencil on mount recto below print; inscribed in pencil: 16 photographer's copyright stamp on mount verso, completed in ink with title and picture number: Early Morning, Big Sur / # 6003-F; inscribed in pencil: BX 2,8

2. STEVE CROUCH, Hills on Lonoak Road, Southern Monterey County, Ca.[Diablo Range], 1974, 6.75x8.5" gelatin silver print, Printed c. 1980, inscribed in pencil on print verso: 16/25 [circled] / Farm in Monterey CO [sic] / BX 2,5; photographer's address stamp completed in ink with photograph number 6019-B; printed label completed in ink: Pg _ _ Fig. 16-25 / Size 3/5 %Key .11 / Kingsport Press #1.64

Eminent landscape photographer Steve Crouch (1915-1983) was a longtime resident of Carmel, California. He worked as an assistant to Ansel Adams and taught at the Ansel Adams Workshop. Crouch was a writer in addition to being a talented photographer, and published a number of photography books, including Steinbeck Country (1973) and Fog and Sun, Sea and Stone (1980). His work was also included, along with that of Adams, Wynn Bullock, Edward Weston, Cole Weston, and Eliot Porter, in Not Man Apart (1965), a book of poetry by Robinson Jeffers published by the Sierra Club. When Crouch died, his archive was rescued by fellow photographer Al Weber and ultimately placed in the McHenry Library Special Collections unit at UC Santa Cruz.

1. Very good. Surface wear.
2. Very good. Corner/edge wear. Print lifting from mount in bottom left corner.