Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Rotunda with Late Afternoon Shadows
A gelatin silver print capturing the iconic rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with dramatic late afternoon shadows creating geometric patterns across its surfaces. The photograph emphasizes the building's modernist architecture through the interplay of light and shadow.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
October 9, 2025
Lot 107
Artists in conversation
Ezra Stoller
American · b. 1915
Stoller was the preeminent architectural photographer of the modernist era and famously documented the Guggenheim Museum itself, capturing its sweeping interior forms and the dramatic interplay of natural light across its curved surfaces in gelatin silver prints.
Julius Shulman
American · b. 1910
Shulman specialized in black and white architectural photography that emphasized the geometric clarity and bold shadow patterns of modernist buildings, using light as a compositional tool in ways that closely parallel Davidson's approach in this interior study.
Lucien Hervé
Hungarian French · b. 1910
Hervé created strikingly graphic architectural photographs that transformed modernist structures into abstract compositions of light, shadow, and geometric form, sharing with this Davidson print the same emphasis on dramatic tonal contrast and architectural rhythm.
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