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Road to Bonneville Raceway, Tooele County, Utah by Stuart Klipper

Salutations from San Francisco, friends! It's Sara—presenting our fourth edition from Stuart Klipper. Jen first introduced you to Stuart's work a couple years ago, in celebration of Collectors' Confab number two. On the eve of our fourth annual soiree, it seems apropos to come full circle with a new print from Mr. Klipper. Our friends (and hosts) at Chronicle Books published a gorgeous tome of his photos, The Antarctic: From the Circle to the Pole.

In that book, you'll find Stuart's first editions—Swell, Southern Ocean near 50 S, Antarctica and Icebreaker, Emperor penguin, Southern O., Antarctica—photographs from his travels to the coldest climates, in the most desolate of places. Road to Bonneville Raceway, Tooele County, Utah is from a different body of work—The World in a Few States—a series he's been working on since 1979.

That Stuart's been working on this project longer than I've been alive comes as no surprise, as I wrote when introducing Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica, "his sense of adventure is equaled only by his photographic fervor: he's super prolific, leaving panoramic peeks of the farthest reaches of the world in his wake." His dedication to his practice has reaped rewards; among other things, his photographs have been exhibited in, and collected by, major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center. Road to Bonneville Raceway, Tooele County, Utah, in fact, resides in the Smithsonian's collection. He's been awarded major grants, including two each from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Bush Foundation, and three each from the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board.

Stuart's success is just one of many things we'll be celebrating tomorrow—stellar artists, great art and good cheer will abound. See you then?

Fourth Annual Collectors' Confab at Chronicle Books
Who: Collectors, Artists & Team 20x200
What: 20x200 Collectors' Confab
When: Thursday, May 19th | 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Where: Chronicle Books | 680 Second Street (btwn Brannan + Townsend) San Francisco, CA