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LOU STOUMEN (1917-1991) A portfolio entitled Forty Years. Complete with 20 photographs spanning the photographer's long career. Silver prints, the images measuring 13 1/2x18 inches (34.3x45.7 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), all but one with Stoumen's signature, in ink, on recto, and the portfolio title and edition notation 1/50, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso; each enclosed in a folder with the printed title, extended caption, print number, and negative date. Folio-sized black metal box with a silver label; the colophon with Stoumen's signature and the edition "one," in ink, and an artist's statement; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 50 PLUS 10 ARTIST'S PROOFS. The Witkin Gallery & G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, 1940-79; printed 1980-81
Sailor & Girl, New York City, 1940 * Times Square in the Rail, New York City, 1940 * Black Cat Bar & Brothel, San Juan Puerto Rico, 1942 (not signed) * Dying Girl, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1942 * War & Peace, 1943 * Bomb Pin, Kunming, China, 1944 * Old Man, Boy Soldier, Chengtu, China, 1944 * The Taj Mahal from the Air, Agra, India, 1944 * The Day FDR Died, Chester, Pennsylvania, 1945 * Baby/Bed/Jesus, Los Angeles, California, 1950 * Young Woman, Brooklyn, NY, 1962 * The Lovers, Berkeley, California, 1969 * Adobe Church, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1977 * Black Horse, Black Dog, Salida, Colorado, 1978 * Fantasy Car, Sausalito, California, 1978 * 43rd Street off Broadway, New York City, 1978 * Street Woman, Times Square, 1979 * The Barber, Naolinco, Mexico, 1979 * The Butcher, Naolinco, Mexico, 1979 * Storm, Xalapa, Mexico, 1979.
