Gold Standards: The Art of the Orotone presents nearly one hundred examples of the short-lived early twentieth-century photographic process in which images were printed on glass and backed with gold, producing warm, glistening pictures typically sold as tourist souvenirs of the American West. Drawn from the largest known private collection of orotones, the exhibition features majestic views by Arthur Clarence Pillsbury alongside works by photographers many of whose names have been lost to history. Part decoration, part memorialization, the objects sit at the intersection of fine art, craft, and commercial souvenir culture.
