Jan 27, 2022 - Sale 2593

Sale 2593 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

(FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION)


A portfolio of 10 F.S.A. photographs, including images by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, and Ben Shahn.
With 10 (of 10) iconic photographs from the Farm Security Administration, each printed under the supervision of Arthur Rothstein. Silver prints, the images measuring 203.2 mm square to 301.6x209.6 mm; 8 to 11 7/8x8 1/4 inches, the sheets 279.4x355.6 mm; 11x14 inches, each with a credit, title, date, and RA number hand stamp, and all but three with the printer's portfolio hand stamp, on verso; not including original printed paper title folder. FROM A LIMITED EDITION. The Photographic Historical Society of New York Inc., 1975

Dorothea Lange's Hoe Culture, 1936 * Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936; Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Wife, Colorado, 1939 * Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936 * Sharecropper's Wife and Child, Arkansas, 1935 * Badlands, South Dakota, 1936; Walker Evans' Bud Fields Family, Alabama, 1936 * Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1935; and Ben Shahn's Sherfiff's Deputy, Morgantown, W. Va., 1935 * Linworth, Ohio, 1935.