Feb 21, 2019 - Sale 2499

Sale 2499 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 4,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.)
Suite of 10 photographs relating to the F.S.A., with images by Dorothea Lange (2), Walker Evans (2), Arthur Rothstein (4), and Ben Shahn (2). The photographs were selected by Arthur Rothstein, and include Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (1936) and Hoe Culture (1936); Walker Evans' Bethlehem, PA (1935) and Bud Field's Family (1936); Ben Shahn's Sheriff's Deputy (1935) and Linworth (1935); and 4 photographs by Arthur Rothstein, among them his iconic Dust Storm, Oklahoma (1936). With the printed introduction. Silver prints, the images measuring 7 1/2x9 3/4 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), each with a hand stamp including the photographer's credit, a caption, the printing lab's credit, dates, and "Printed Under the Supervision of Arthur Rothstein," on verso. The Photographic Historical Society of New York, Inc., 1935-36; printed circa 1976