Oct 17, 2019 - Sale 2520

Sale 2520 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LAURA GILPIN (1891-1979)
Rio Grande Before a Storm. Silver print, the image measuring 12 3/4x9 3/4 inches (32.4x24.8 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Gilpin's signature and date, in pencil, on mount recto, amd her Colorado Springs address label, with the typed title, on mount verso. 1945

Additional Details

The Rio Grande, River of Destiny, front cover.

The photograph was taken near Creede, Colorado in the Upland Valley. Gilpin writes about the location in her monograph.