Valrico, FL
Details
- Dimensions
- 26.5ʺW × 0.75ʺD × 22.5ʺH
- Styles
- Traditional
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Art Subjects
- Architecture
- Period
- Early 20th Century
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Glass
- Linen
- Wood
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Ecru
- Condition Notes
- Some buckling at the edge of the print and debris under glass. Some buckling at the edge of the print and debris under glass. less
- Description
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This is one of two photographs by renowned Cheyenne WY photographer J.E. Stimson, from originals dating to the early 20th …
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This is one of two photographs by renowned Cheyenne WY photographer J.E. Stimson, from originals dating to the early 20th c., each in a gorgeous wood frame with linen mat and each looking like the set for "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" or some other Western. With an overall size of 26 1/2" x 22 1/2", this print packs a wallop. We particularly love the silhouette of a horse tethered by the building. And then there's one lonely figure approaching on foot.... It is in very good, gently-used condition, as pictured, with some buckling at the edge of the print and debris under glass.
About the photographer:
J. E. Stimson (1870-1952), a Southerner by birth, arrived in Cheyenne, probably at the suggestion of two brothers who worked for the Union Pacific, without a camera, a studio or a clientele. He bought the studio and equipment of Wyoming pioneer photographer Carl Eitner, and in July 1889, Stimson began making portraits.
After a trip to the Bighorns in 1894, Stimson began to broaden his business to include scenic views. Very few pictures survive from this first decade of his work, however. In the 1930s, when he was moving his studio, a shelf collapsed and hundreds of glass negatives crashed to the floor.
In 1900, the Union Pacific Railroad hired Stimson as a publicity photographer. The railroad had emerged from bankruptcy only a few years before and needed photographs to help change the image of a scandal-plagued past. He was paid on a per-picture basis by the railroad, and at the same time was allowed to sell prints to the public. The arrangement gave him free rein to photograph anything that might draw investors to the railway. Besides the obvious subject of the railroad itself, Stimson was to photograph natural wonders, city scenes, farms and ranches, mining and irrigation projects, and anything else that might bring money to the newly rebuilt railroad.
Already by 1903, Stimson's reputation as a scenic photographer had so grown that he was commissioned by the state of Wyoming to provide five hundred Wyoming scenes for display at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held in 1904 in St. Louis. The next year, the Wyoming exhibits and Simpson’s photos were shipped to Portland, Ore., for display at a fair celebrating the centennial of the Louis and Clark expedition. By 1906, after only ten years in scenic work, Stimson had gained national recognition as a photographer and artist.
In the decades that followed, Stimson continued to produce thousands of photographs, including scenes not only from Wyoming, but also from Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah, Idaho, Nevada and California. Stimson died Feb. 8, 1952 while visiting his sister in Connecticut, and is buried in Cheyenne. He was 82 years old. less
Valrico, FL
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