Mar 11, 2021 - Sale 2561

Sale 2561 - Lot 381

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
H. RICHARDSON CREMER (active 1920s-40s)
A group of 26 artistic photographs of womens' feet, legs, and footwear.


A range of images including gracefully crossed bare and high heel-clad feet, elegantly posed hands alongside feet, commercial images of a seated woman applying skin cream, standing nudes from the waist down, a woman in a garden scene buckling her shoe, and more. Silver prints, the images measuring 5 1/2x3 5/8 to 13 7/8x10 7/8 inches (14x9.2 to 35.2x27.6 cm.), and the reverse, three prints on original mounts with Cremer's signature, in pencil, on mount recto. 1920s-30s

Additional Details

H. Richardson Cremer was a charter member of the Photographic Society of America and was a president of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts, Photography Department (now the Brooklyn Museum).