Feb 23, 2023 - Sale 2627

Sale 2627 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 37,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
LENA SCOTT HARRIS (1873-1956)
Group of approximately 65 hand-colored botanical studies, all apparently California native plants. Hand-colored silver prints, the images measuring approximately 11x8 inches (27.9x20.3 cm.), double mounted, the larger 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), 36 with Harris' signature in ink on print recto, all but four with a typed label identifying the floral specimen on mount recto, and each with her stamp on mount verso. Circa 1930s

Provenance: From the Estate of Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia

Harris was born in Iowa, but settled in Los Angeles by 1905 and died there.