Oct 17, 2019 - Sale 2520

Sale 2520 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(FARM SECURITY ADMINISTARTION)
A selection of 18 photographs by Arthur Rothstein (4), Jack Delano (3), John Vachon (4), Russell Lee (5), Marion Post Wolcott (one), and Ben Shahn (one), including iconic imagery from the Great Depression. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), one slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, one with a George Eastman House hand stamp, the rest with a Library of Congress hand stamp and various notations, including the photographer's credit, the negative date, a caption, and/or the RA number, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1930s; printed 1970s

Additional Details

Includes Rothstein's Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936 and The Hotel de Paris, Wolcott's Cultivating Crops in the fertile farmland of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, and Shahn's Rehabilitation Clients, Boone Co., Arkansas, 1935, among many more.