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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
CHAPPELL, WALTER (1925-2000) "Stone Carving." Silver print, 9 1/2x6 1/2 inches (24.1x16.5 cm.), with Chappell's signature and date, in ink, on mount recto, and with the Photography Collection of the Polaroid Corporation label with the typed credit, title, and date, and the acquisition date, in ink, on mount verso. 1958; printed no later than 1959
with--"Forks" "Abstraction" "Cut Cabbage." Select group of 3 unique Polaroid Type 55 prints, each 3 1/2x4 1/2 inches (8.9x11.4 cm.), and the reverse, "Cut Cabbage" with Chappell's signature, date, and notations, the rest with his credit and date, in pencil, on verso. From the Polaroid Collection: "Stone Carving" acquired from the photographer in August 1959 for the Library Collection. The Polaroids, Heliography, 13 (variant). Chappell trained as a photographer under Minor White and became part of the circle that included White, Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston.
