Currently exhibiting at Rendon Photography & Fine Art (RPFA) at 733 S. Alamo in San Antonio, the RPFA Collection (aka the House Collection) is a small, but rich aggregation of prints acquired through our exhibits and travels. Al keeps in touch with many principal photographic arts galleries – particularly John Cleary in Houston and Spencer Throckmorton in New York.
Al is constantly monitoring Photographic Arts throughout the country and all over San Antonio. He acquires work on a regular basis, so the House Collection continues to evolve.
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The House Collection also includes prints from Al’s various art series. Those prints can be seen in the AL RENDON'S ART SERIES.
You are invited to come see the collection anytime – just call 210.288.4900 for an appointment.
In no particular order, the House Collection includes:
Michael Kenna Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset, England 7.5 x 7.5 Silver Gelatin Print
Michael Kenna uses a variety of photographic darkroom techniques to express a dreamy perspective of the environment.
Tim Summa Gesture 14 X 11 Archival Digital Print
Tim Summa Original Princess 9.5 x 7.5 Polaroid Transfer
Tim Summa is an artist, teacher and Internet designer working in San Antonio. With a graduate education (MFA) at UTSA, Summa is constantly innovating new approaches to photography. He exhibited “The Polaroid Matrix” at Rendon Photography & Fine Art in 2003.
(3 Bettie Page images) Photographer Unknown Untitled 5 x 4 Silver Gelatin Print
Bettie Page may be one of the most important photo models in history. Her sessions at the apex of the 20th Century in Los Angeles represent an open, innocent approach to modeling that expresses an inner life and. Henry Feldstein in Forest Hills, New York owns the largest collection of Bettie Page images, and consigned more than two dozen select silver gelatin prints for an RPAF exhibit in November 2002.
Agnes Falkieuriz Succulent Silver Gelatin Print
Agnes Falkieuriz is a local San Antonio artist. We acquired this print several years ago at a Southtown gallery that has since faded, but we would like to find Agnes and show what’s she’s up to now.
Lynn Goldsmith various from Flower Digital Archival Prints
Lynn Goldsmith is most famous for her rocknroll and celebrity portraits, and for music videos in the 1980s under her performance personae, Will Powers. However, she published a book, Flower, in 2000. RPAF has several digital archival prints from the Flower collection.
Willis F. Lee Roses 8.5 x 7 Photogravure (11/40)
Willis F. Lee Sunflower 2 7 x 8.5 Photogravure (4/40)
A Fort Worth native, Willis Lee is a self-taught photographer with a particular “fascination with the connection between the intimate and the colossal.” Lee’s copperplate gravures, silver prints, platinum and chromogenic prints bring the natural world into sharp focus. Willis lived in San Antonio for many years after starting his photographic work in 1971. He was a mentor to Al Rendon. He moved to Santa Fe, NM, in 1977 with his wife, Roberta, and has remained a good friend to Al. His prints have been exhibited throughout the Southwest, including an RPFA exhibit in 2004.
Luis González Palma La Coraza (Armor,) a 13 x 16 Photogravure (4/25)
Luis González Palma is a Guatemalan photographer whose images express the issues confronting the mestizo minority in his country, portraying “the soul of a people” with symbols and cultural expressions interlaced throughout his work.
Tor Mavestrand Chief 14.5 x 11.5 framed Hand Colored Image Transfer
Tor Mavestrand My Old Boots 15 x 20 framed Gum-Bichromate Print
Tor Mavestrand, a native of Stockholm, has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico since the late 1980s. Working as a ranch hand in southern Utah, Mavestrand fulfilled a boyhood dream of living in the American west, and opened his lenses to the life of professional cowboys.
Juan Miguel Ramos Maria 18 x 12 Digital Archival Print
Juan Miguel Ramos constructs elaborate artworks that express unique personality and vibrant expression. A 2001 MFA graduate of UTSA, his images are part of the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection as well as private collections throughout the state.
David Halliday Untitled 7.5 x 11 Toned Silver Gelatin Print
Born in Glen Cove, New York, David Halliday has lived in New Orleans since the early 1980s. Halliday works exclusively with toned monochrome prints, and his subject matter creates an intimate perspective of the American South.
Graciela Iturbide Our Lady of the Iguanas 11 x 9.5 Silver Gelatin Print
Graciela Iturbide (born 1942 in Mexico City) is a Mexican photographer. A student of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, she is well known for her travels among indigenous tribes in Mexico, and for a strong feminist advocacy arising from her first collection, Mujer Angel.
Mariana Yampolsky Edge of Time 13.5 x 18 Silver Gelatin Print
Born in Chicago, Mariana Yamplosky changed her citizenship to Mexico in 1954, and is regarded as one of Mexico’s best photographers. Yamplosky was dedicated to realism, refusing to manipulate situations for the photograph. Edge of Time, the print in our collection, is one of her most famous images.
Bernard Silberstein Frida Kahlo Standing 14 x 17 Toned Silver Gelatin Print
Bernard G. Silberstein (1906 – 2000 is best known for a portrait of Frida Kahlo looking over Diego Rivera’s shoulder as he paints. The RPFA collection includes another famous Kahlo portrait, dressed much like the images of La Virgen that recur throughout Mexico and the American southwest.
Maggie Taylor The Moth Dancer 15 x 15 Archival Digital Print (6/15)
Maggie Taylor The Night Garden 15 x 15 Archival Digital Print (36/40)
Maggie Taylor earned a bachelor’s in philosophy from Yale and an MFA in photography from the University of Florida. In 1996, Taylor began working digitally, using a scanner in place of a camera. By placing objects directly on the glass top of the scanner she is able to create a unique type of digital image which share qualities of both photography and hand illustration.
Edward Weston Pepper 7.5 x 9.25 Silver Gelatin Print by Cole Weston
Edward Weston is one of the founding fathers of modern photography, exhibiting at the Chicago Art Institute in 1903. Based in California, Weston gave a lifetime of excellent images to the art form, both in the studio and on the scene.
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