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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.), each with Stoumen's signature, in ink, on recto, and the portfolio title and edition notation 3/50, 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 notation "three," 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 * 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.
Lou Stoumen's portfolio entitled "Forty Years" covers the photographer's long career and the portfolio is in excellent condition. The images are bright and clean with great tonality.
The images are overall in excellent condition with only two prints, "Old Man, Boy Soldier" and "Times Square in the Rain", with small specks of unobtrusive professional retouching.
The margins and versos of the prints are overall bright and clean. Two prints ("The Lovers" and "Storm" with very faint rippling at the edges from the drying of the print, not entering the image area.
Each print with Stoumen's signature, in ink, on recto, and the portfolio title and edition notation 3/50, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso.
Each print is enclosed in a folder with the printed title, extended caption, print number, and negative date on the interior. The folders are bright and clean.
The colophon is clean with a few soft handling marks and a rub in the upper right corner from the case.
The black metal portfolio box with a silver label. The box is in near excellent condition with a few rubs.
A stunning portfolio documenting the photographers career.
