Selections from a Country Called California: The Collection of Stephen White

This February, we are thrilled to offer a selection of 72 lots from Stephen White’s landmark collection, A Country Called California, featuring photographs from the 1850s to the 1960s. A landmark book and exhibition, White’s vast collection presents the unique history of California through the lens of photography and imagines this history and its people as a “dreamscape,” a place that represents both our past and a hopeful future as a country.

Highlights range from Dorothea Lange’s White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1934; printed 1970s, and Ansel Adams’ images of the WWII Japanese incarceration, to early photographs of Yosemite by Carleton Watkins (The Three Brothers, Yosemite, circa 1872) and oil on Los Angeles beaches, as well as and images featuring the full spectrum of immigrants and contributors to the state, Hollywood, and much more.

Browse the complete offering here.

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