WELCOME TO THE
 

ALINDER GALLERY

Better art. Better Life.

 

Gualala, California, USA

Contact us by phone (707) 884-4884; or by email alinders@mcn.org
 
   
   
   


Exclusively Fine Photography

 


 

 James G. Alinder &
Mary Street Alinder

Address:
39141 S. Hwy One
P.O. Box 449
Gualala, CA 95445

Phone:
707-884-4884

All prices are in U.S. dollars and while we strive to maintain accurate prices on this website, they are subject to change without notice.  Typically there is only one print available of any image and it is in excellent condition.  Please contact us to confirm availability, condition, and current price.

FAQ’S 

Who are the Alinders?

 Mary Street Alinder is an independent scholar specializing in the history of photography. She is the biographer of Ansel Adams and an authority on 20th century photography. From 1979 until his death in 1984 Alinder worked as the chief assistant to Ansel Adams. In 1985, she completed the New York Times best seller, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, followed by a companion book of letters in 1988. After eight additional years of rigorous research, Alinder's Ansel Adams: A Biography was published in 1996 by Henry Holt & Co.  She has authored, co-authored and edited a number of other books and articles on fine art photography.  She has lectured on Adams all over the world.

 James Alinder received a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from the University of New Mexico in 1968 and spent the next decade as a professor of art at the University of Nebraska. In 1977 at the request of Ansel Adams, he became the executive director of The Friends of Photography in Carmel, developed it into the nation's largest non-profit photography organization.  He has written or edited some forty books on creative photography.  In 1990 they opened the Alinder Gallery Gualala that is devoted to fine art photography. 

As an artist, his photographs are in many museum permanent collections and he has twice received artist's fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Alinders have curated more than 100 exhibitions worldwide, including the 1987 Ansel Adams blockbuster at San Francisco’s de Young Museum and a 2002 Centennial Adams exhibit.

Visiting The Sea Ranch or Gualala?
We are a three hour drive north of San Francisco, on the Pacific Ocean.  We're located on Shoreline Highway One in downtown Gualala. Gallery hours are from 12 to 5 pm, or by appointment, closed Tuesday and Wednesday.

Preview of Artwork
Special arrangements can often be made for viewing of artwork prior to sale.

 Framing
The gallery provides framing at additional expense. We exclusively use OP-3 Museum quality ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas.  Please inquire at time of purchase about availability of frames.

Payment
Payment is due at time of sale.  We accept cash, checks and major credit cards.

California Taxes
There is a 8.25% sales tax for all purchases within the State of California. Sales tax is not applicable to purchases billed and shipped to an out-of-state address.

Shipping
Artwork will be packaged professionally and shipped via the best means available, usually Federal Express, at the expense of the client. Your shipment will be insured by the gallery for its full value.  Report any damage immediately after receipt.

Authenticity and Satisfaction Guarantee
All purchases are guaranteed to be as described. All photographs are in excellent condition unless otherwise noted. We are happy to provide you with a Certificate of Authenticity.  If you are not satisfied with your purchase you may return the artwork within 10 days for a full refund. To return artwork, contact the gallery to make arrangements. Please retain original packaging in case artwork is to be returned. Artwork must be insured by you for full value when being returned.

 

email address

alinders@mcn.org

© Copyright 2009
All rights reserved

Copyrights and other proprietary rights in the photographs and other material on this website may also subsist in individuals and entities other than and in addition to the Alinder Gallery.

The Alinder Gallery expressly prohibits the copying of any protected materials on this website, except for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright laws.

 

Specialists in the Photographs of Ansel Adams
 


Ansel Adams
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
15-3/8" x 19-3/8" silver-gelatin print made later and signed by the artist
Retail Price $49,000. (Motivated Consignment Seller, make an offer!)

 

Ansel Adams

Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley

16x20" matted and framed, signed, SOLD

 

Ansel Adams
Sunset, Timber Cove
Sonoma County, California, 1960
Vintage 14-3/4" x 19-1/2" silver-gelatin print made by the artist
$7,500.00 Signed

Ansel Adams
Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley
Yosemite National Park, California
Hills Bros. Coffee Can 1969
Excellent Condition-a few small scratches
$900.00

We have recently discovered a couple of boxes of Mary's biography of Ansel that has been

out-of-print for several years.  It is available for the original retail price of $30.  Call or email

to reserve a new fresh copy for your collection.  A sampling of reviews:

“ennobling, moving book”          Houston Chronicle

“a loving, minutely researched portrait”          Los Angeles Times

“deeply felt”          Publishers Weekly (starred review)

 “very important, very readable”          The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa)

“superb biography…richly detailed portrait of the complex, legendary figure that was Ansel Adams”                 View Camera

 

 

 
Ruth Bernhard

Triangles

Price on Request

This exquisite image by Ruth Bernhard displays her use of light to harmoniously reveal form.  This particular print was made more than 30 years ago when Ruth was 70 years old and is one of the last photographs she actually printed herself.

 

 

Willard Van Dyke was central to the founding of Group f.64.    Born December 5, 1906 in Denver, Colorado, it was as a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1930's that Willard's photographic career began.  He and his classmate Preston Holder regularly visited Edward Weston in Carmel in an informal apprenticeship with the internationally known Weston.

Willard's place at 683 Brockhurst in Oakland became a gathering place for photographers, where Group f.64 was founded and a serious photography gallery. 

In 1935 Willard moved to New York to begin a new career as a documentary filmmaker, believing that film could change the world.  In 1937 he was a cameraman for Pare Lorentz's The River.  With Ralph Steiner he founded American Documentary Films, Inc and together they made the seminal film, The City in 1939.  From 1965 to 1974 Willard was the director of the Department of Film at MOMA.  Van Dyke died in 1986.

His wonderful photographs of the1930s, such as Itinerant Workers, are rare.

 

 

 
 

   Willard Van Dyke

 willard two men

   Willard Van Dyke, Itinerant Workers, c. 1934

   Silver-gelatin print made later by the artist

   Excellent Condition

   Print #8 from the edition of 50.

   $2,800.00 Signed

 

 

 

Willard Van Dyke

Church Yard

c. 1932

Printed and signed by the artist

$2,000.00
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
The Jack Linkletter Collection
 Jack Linkletter walked into the Alinder Gallery on our opening day, April 15, 1990, and looked thoughtfully and long at our carefully curated exhibition reflecting a mini history of photography. His family had long owned a large cattle ranch on the Big Oak Flat Road, just east of Yosemite, and so he was drawn to a small albumen landscape of that area made by Carleton Watkins in the 1860s. He purchased that print and became our very first client whom over the next seventeen years became one of our closest friends. His death, last December, seemed impossible because never has there been someone more alive, more "seize the day" - every day - than Jack.
            He was the son of a famous TV and radio star, Art Linkletter. Jack graduated from USC, Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa and completed Harvard's Advanced Management Program. For many years he hosted a variety of network TV shows, including the much beloved "Hootenanny." But he also managed his family's investments, including for a time, the largest cattle ranch in Australia. He founded the Livestock Merchandising Institute, was the national director of the 4-H Clubs, International President of the Young President's Organization, and on and on.
            With all his own significant achievements, Jack was never a boastful man. He would rather find out what you were all about. His curiosity was insatiable and he was always great fun to be with. Excited by fine art, he became an accomplished sculptor, working in the difficult medium of bronze casting. Finding great worth in his yoga studies, he became an instructor. Jack was an indefatigable seeker of life and culture on this planet Earth.
          We are deeply honored to be entrusted with the sale of The Jack Linkletter Collection of Photography.
 
 
 
 
 
classic torso
Ruth Bernhard    Classic Torso  Silver-gelatin print 13-1/2 x 10-1/2"  $15,000.00
 "Light is my inspiration. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends". Ruth Bernhard
 
 
Ruth Bernhard    Sand Dune  Silver-gelatin print 7-3/4 x 13-1/2"   $9,000.00 

"To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman has been my mission."
 

Ruth Bernhard was born in Berlin on October 14, 1905 into a family immersed in art.  Her father, Lucian Bernhard, was the father of the German poster and designer of type forms.  Educated in Germany including two years at the Berlin Academy of Art, she emigrated to the United States in 1927, landing in New York.  The next year she became a darkroom assistant to Ralph Steiner.  She soon purchased an 8x10 view camera and began making her own images. By 1934 Bernhard was frequently photographing women in the nude. It would be this art form for which she would eventually become best known.
            While on vacation in California in 1935, by chance she met the renowned photographer Edward Weston.  She was profoundly affected by his images, leading Bernhard to her development of a strong personal vision.  Ruth eventually settled in San Francisco in 1953.  She has lectured and conducted master classes throughout the United States. There are several books of her work and it is widely collected.  Bernhard died in San Francisco at age 101.
 
 
 
 
 
rake and vine
Lou Stoumen  Rake and Vine  Silver Gelatin Print 12-5/8 x 9"  $2,000.00
Lou Stoumen 1917-1991 was a photographer, filmmaker, writer and teacher. Best known for his street photography, Lou had served as a United States Army combat photographer and war correspondent.  He taught for several decades for the UCLA film program, and won two Academy Awards for documentary films. He produced a number of excellent photography books, filled with his wonderful images as well as his sensitive and perceptive prose. Lou's vision was humanitarian and filled with the sense that our world would be a far better place if we all behaved in a more just manner.
 
 
onion
Alan Ross    Onion  Silver-gelatin print 9 x 11-1/2"  $800.00
 Alan Ross is a well known photographer, master printer and educator. He was Ansel Adams' Photographic Assistant in Carmel from 1974 to 1979. He operated a commercial photography studio in San Francisco for twelve years and relocated to Santa Fe in 1993 to devote more of his energies to his personal work, teaching, and work for select clients.  His photography hangs in collections and galleries, and he has led workshops in locations from Yosemite to China.

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
   
 muybridgeEadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
 
Cathedral Spires
albumen contact print 
21-1/4 16-1/2"   $ 8,000.00
 
Photography was only 33 years old (its invention announced to the world in 1839), when Muybridge made this amazing print - a mammoth  plate, albumen print. Inside the hot, stuffy confines of a light-tight tent, a sheet of glass measuring 22 x 18-inches, was coated with a light-sensitive, collodion emulsion and while still wet placed in a huge camera and exposed to the chosen scene for a long period of time - many minutes. Muybridge then had to develop the plate before it dried and somehow get it safely back to his studio in San Francisco where this contact print was made- the albumen paper placed in direct contact with the glass plate negative. Contact prints have long been a connoisseur's delight in photography, since they express the ultimate detail supplied by the negative.
     These are the immutable rocks of Yosemite. For Ansel, Yosemite was best described in its walls of granite. This view is virtually unchanged today: the Merced River meandering below the cliffs of Cathedral Peak, while the transcendent Cathedral Spires soar above.
     Muybridge was born Edward James Muggeridge at Kingston-on-Thames in Surrey, England in 1830. He changed both his surname and forename in his early twenties. By 1867 Muybridge was in San Francisco and he quickly established a reputation as a skilled exponent of landscapes with a series of prints taken in Yosemite Valley. In 1868 he was appointed director of photographic surveys for the US Government, and undertook photographic surveys of several remote regions, including the ports and harbors of newly purchased Alaska.  When he went back to Yosemite in 1872 he took along a mammoth plate camera.  Next he concentrated on "stop-motion" photography - studies of animals and people that were to become subject matter for artists and an influential precursor of the motion picture.

 
 

 
 rodin molds
 

Laura Volkerding (1939-1996)

Rodin Mother Molds
Coubertin Foundry, St. Rémy-les-Chevreuse, France, 1989
Silver-gelatin print  13-1/4" x 19"     $ 2,000.00

 
 
A gathering of mother molds wait impatiently to be re-cast. They look as if they have been placed under a spell and will re-awaken only with the kiss of molten metal. Jack became a fine bronze sculptor. This image had great personal meaning for him.
 
Laura, who taught at Stanford, crisscrossed France from 1985-95 to photograph the wood, stone, and metal artifacts of a tradition that, legend has it, dates back to the construction of Solomon's Temple. She explored the workshops, tools and projects of an elite group of artisan-craftsmen, most of them members of the Compagnons du Devoir. Her photographs evoke a timeless serenity, yet they contain an undercurrent of surrealism arising from the artist's distinctive vision and the modern world's impact on the arcane secrets of an ancient tradition. 

Following her death at too young an age, Laura's archive now lives at The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. The number of prints made by the artist is extremely limited.
 
 canopy
 

Lyle Gomes

Eucalyptus Canopy, Presidio of San Francisco, 1991 silver-gelatin print #11/100, 18-1/2" x 7 "   $1,250.00
 
 
A quintessential northern California scene - the leaf-strewn path before you, the earth shrouded in fog, the air fresh with the minty perfume of eucalyptus, and ahead the promise of sun.
 
Lyle Gomes was born in 1954 in San Francisco. He began photographing seriously at the age of 20 and received both his BA and MA in Art from San Francisco State University. His book of idealized human-made landscapes, Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes, has been supported by both a Fulbright Scholar Award (Britain) and a Rockefeller Foundation residency, Bellagio, Italy. His work can be found in numerous museums that include: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; San Jose Museum of Art; Stanford Museum; and Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. He continues to reside in the San Francisco bay area and heads the Photography program at College of San Mateo.
 
 passageway
 

Lyle Gomes

Passageway, Derbyshire, England, 1998
silver-gelatin print #3/50   7 x 18-1/2"    $1,000.00
 
Lyle discovers a world unnoticed by most, but seen clearly by him.
 
 


 
 

 
 field formation
 

Lyle Gomes 

Field Formation, Buckinghamshire, England, 1998
silver-gelatin print #1/50  7 x 18-1/2"    $800.00
 
Whoever saw the aesthetics in farming? - neatly regimented rolls of hay arranged with military precision and in the far right distance a church steeple's silhouette quietly presides - unusual juxtapositions in the real world.
 
 
 


 
 
 dune fomHuntington Witherill 
Dune Form
silver-gelatin print
13-1/2 x 9-1/2"  $800.00
 
How far can an artist reduce, refine, simplify the subject to describe it best? This elegant dune is such an effortless-seeming effort.
 


 
Born in Syracuse, NY, in 1949, Huntington Witherill moved with his family to Santa Monica, California, in 1953, where he began to develop an interest in music. At the age of four, he began taking piano lessons and continued to do so through his late teens with intentions of becoming a concert pianist. However, upon entering college as a music major, Witherill became interested in the study of two-dimensional design. This shift in artistic medium eventually led to a career in fine art photography beginning in 1970. During the mid-1970's, he studied photography under such notables as Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Steve Crouch and Al Weber.

Witherill's photographs have been exhibited in more than eighty-five individual and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world. Additionally, his photographs are maintained in numerous public art collections worldwide, including the United States Department of State- Art in the Embassies, the National Museum of Modern Art- Kyoto, Japan, Fundacióe Van Gogh d'Arles- Arles, France, the AkronArt Museum, Akron, OH, the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, and the Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, among others. His photographs represent an unusually diverse approach to the medium including classic landscapes, studies of pop-art, botanical subjects, urban architecture, abstracts and digital imaging. 
 
 
 

burrows vietnamLarry Burrows

Hill 484, Vietnam
color print 
17-5/8 x 11-3/4" $ 1,500.00
 
Nothing more can be said about the horror of war than this compelling still-life. Smoke rises from the scorched earth. The naked trees blasted of their leaves offer no hope. An American Army helmet lies empty of its man who has no more need of his rifle as well. A snag of charred wood howls a demon wail across this scene of complete destruction.
 
Larry Burrows,(1926-71), was a British-born photojournalist. From 1961 to 1971 he worked out of Hong Kong for Life, a handy placement when the Vietnam War erupted. He accompanied the US forces, showing the whole panoply of combat from helicopter flights to parachute drops, the gore of battle and the evacuation of the wounded. His color was all shades of mud, khaki, and olive, splashed with scarlet.  He died, camera in hand, when his helicopter was shot down at Langvie, South Vietnam.
 
 
 
 
 

 

More 2009 Specials

 

Brett Weston

New York, 1944

"11x14" Silver-Gelatin CONTACT Print

$12,000.00  Signed

 

Sebastaio Salgado

Three workers capping a wellhead

Burhan oil field, Kuwait

Negative 1991

Signed 16" x 20"Silver-Gelatin Print

$5,000.00

 

Chip Hooper 

Crashing Wave & Splash

Big Sur Coast, California

negative 1996, 20" x 24"gelatin-silver print 1998

from a sold out edition limited to 90 prints

$6,000.00

 

Brett Weston
 Garrapata Beach, Big Sur, 1954
11"x14" silver-gelatin print made by the artist, signed
$12,000.00

 

Ansel Adams
 Robert Boardman Howard, Sculptor
11"x14" silver-gelatin print made by the artist, signed
$6,500.00

Wolf Von Dem Bussche
 Twin Towers, New York City, 1976
16-1/2 "x22-1/2" silver-gelatin print made 1979 #15/90
$4,200.00, signed

Wright Morris
 House with Dead Tree, Virginia, 1940
8"x10" silver-gelatin print made by the artist
$2,400.00 signed

 

Clarence White
In the Orchard
8"x 6" Photogravure from Camera Work
$1,200.00

 

Wright Morris
 Log Ends, Ohio, 1942
8"x10" silver-gelatin print by the artist
$3,000.00 signed

Jim Alinder
Ansel & Half Dome, 1982
13-1/2"x10-1/2" Pigmented Giclee print 2000
$500.00 signed

Harold Edgerton
 Tennis Forehand, c.1940
multiple-high speed strobe
8-3/4"x12" silver-gelatin print
$2,500.00 signed

John Sexton
 Aspen Dream
Near Aspen Colorado
11"x14" image made by the artist, signed
$900.00

Alan Ross
 Pfeiffer Beach
Big Sur, California
11"x14" image made by the artist, signed
$750.00

 

George Fiske
Vernal Fall
7-1/2"x4-1/4"Albumen Print
$350.00

George Fiske
Vernal Fall (close)
7-1/2"x4-1/4"Albumen Print
$300.00


 

John Paul Edwards
Our California Coast, near Carmel
 11"x9" silver-gelatin print
$2,400.00

 

Christopher Burkett
Resplendent Leaves at Sunset
Oregon 2000, Printed 2004
10-1/2"x10-1/2" artist made & signed print #137
$750.00 with deluxe edition book

 

 

 

 

Christopher Burkett
Resplendent Light
Deluxe Edition Book #137
comes with print on left
 
   

 

 

Solomon D. Butcher
Duck Hunting in Western Nebraska, c. 1890s
Solio Print, gold toned on printing out paper, 6" x 7-3/4" contact print
Butcher's slow glass plates couldn't stop the ducks, so he drew them into the plate.
$1,500.00


 

E.S. Curtis
Navaho Medicine-Man
Photogravure 7-1/4"x5-3/8"
$500.00

 

Clarence H. White
Letitia Felix
Photogravure from Camera Work, 8-1/4"x5-5/8"
$800.00

 

D.O. Hill & R. Adamson
Mrs. Rigby
Photogravure from Camera Work 8"x6"
$900.00

 

D.O. Hill & R. Adamson
Dr. Munro
Photogravure from Camera Work 8-1/4"x6-1/8"
$900.00

 


Marion Post Wolcott
"Biscuit Lady"
A member of the Wilkins family making biscuits on corn-husking day, Tallyho, North Carolina, 1939
silver-gelatin print 8-3/4"x12"
$1,200.00

 

Galen Rowell
Patriarch Grove, Bristle Cone Pines, 1974
8-7/8"x13-1/4" color photograph from the numbered edition
$3,500.00 Signed

 
 Photographs by Jim Alinder (visit www.jimalinderphotography.com for more)

 

THRILL, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1969

 

PICTURE SPOT, Great Meteor Crater, Arizona, 1970

 

Ten Half-Buried Cadillacs, 1974

 
 

Inspiration, 1978

 

 

Ansel Adams, 1984

 

  

Ansel with a straight and a fine print of Moonrise, 1981

 

 

  

 

 

 

Conforming Cloud, Monument Valley

 

Stengel Beach, The Sea Ranch

 

 

 

 

Tomatoes in Blue Bowl, 1998

From the Series Markets of Provence

 

Goat Cheese, 2004

From the Series Markets of Provence

  

 

 

 
     

Holga Holy Ghost, 2007

From the Series Art of the Automobile

 

  

Mother & Child, Somalia, 1965

Z & Me, 1973