Untitled [Dried Animal Skull in Cypress Roots]
Squash
Mission District (Facts and Feeling)
Nude with Ring
Aqueduct Race Track [Couple at the Track]
Gutzon Borglum [1871-1941] Working at Mount Rushmore
Parking Lot, Battery Street, San Francisco
P.G. & E. Station, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Squatters Along Highway Near Bakersfield, California
The Condensing Tower
Snow Geese with Reflection of the Sun over Buena Vista Lake, California
Still Life - Glass Plates & Newspaper
Untitled [Basket with Cabbages, San Francisco Farmer’s Market]
[Still/Video Performance]
Dunes, Oceano
In the Cemetery of the Old Galeres, Scilly Islands
Portrait of Philippe Halsman—Burning the Candle at Both Ends
Cicomavi Wolpi, Moki Towns
Plaza, Tepotzotlan
Thomas Hart Benton [1889-1975]
Hochzeitgesellschaft [Wedding Party]
Devil's Gate
Portrait of Emily [Ellias] Holding a Rose
My Cottage
Self-Portrait
Untitled [Yosemite Valley]
Self-Portrait with Andrej Lachowicz
Hands of Robert Howard Carving, San Francisco
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Portrait of Painter Thomas Hill [1829-1908]
Smoking
Untitled [Foundry Objects]
Usine
Masked Figures, Day of the Dead Celebration, Mexico
Place de l’Opera
Thomas Hart Benton [1889-1975] in His Studio
Marsden Hartley [1877-1943]
Max Weber [1881-1961] Painting in His Studio
Bakery Boy

Gene Petersen

· Untitled [Dried Animal Skull in Cypress Roots] · Vintage silver print · 1950

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