LOU STOUMEN (1917-1991) A portfolio entitled Forty Years. Complete with 20 dynamic 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 4/50 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 4/50 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
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
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
