Commissions 1944-1995
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997
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content: Claire Falkenstein papers
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content: Claire Falkenstein papers / Series 8: Photographs
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.falkclai, Subseries 8.5
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content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The files are arranged alphabetically by commission.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The photographs in this subseries are a visual complement to the textual records in the commission series. They include images of project construction, as well as photographs of the completed commissions. Photographs of one of Falkenstein's first public fountain commissions, "Structure and Flow #2" at California Federal Savings and Loan, are particularly extensive and include installation photographs. In 1995, the fountain was dismantled and the copper parts were stolen. Images of the deteriorating fountain are also included in these files. In addition, the subseries contains photographs of the gates that Falkenstein designed and built for Peggy Guggenheim's villa in Venice.

St. Basil Church, the largest commission of Falkenstein's career is also documented in this subseries.