Apr 20, 2017 - Sale 2443

Sale 2443 - Lot 50

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN; DOROTHEA LANGE; ET ALIA)
A group of 39 Farm Security Administration photographs, depicting the resettlement of farmers in the Western United States. Includes photographs by Dorothea Lange (5), Arthur Rothstein (12), Russell Lee (6), John Vachon (6), Fischer (2), and Carl Mydans (one); one is not legible and the remaining 6 are from Acme News Pictures. Silver prints, the images measuring 6 1/2x8 1/2 to 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (16.5x21.6 to 19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 9x7 to 8x10 inches (22.9x17.8 to 20.3x25.4 cm.), four with notations, in ink or grease pencil, on recto; each with various notations, often including a title or RA number, in pencil, some with a mounted caption label or typed caption information, each with an N.E.A. hand stamp, and the rest with either a Resettlement Administration Photograph credit hand stamp, an F.S.A. credit hand stamp, or an Acme News Pictures hand stamp (6), on verso. 1930s