MANEY JOHN ARTHUR (active 1900 1910s) Suite of 39 lyrical ph

Sale 2233 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 4,320

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

WITH PRINTS BY CHARLES JOB MANEY, JOHN ARTHUR (active 1900-1910s)
Suite of 39 lyrical photographs of the Mohawk Valley, New York by this author and photographer. With pastoral landscapes, dramatic waterfalls, farming in the Mohawk valley, architectural views of colonial-era homes, a humorous scene of a wrecked Model T and an interior at Ft. Johnson. Platinum prints, 6 1/2x4 1/2 inches (16.5x11.4 cm.), and slightly smaller, with Maney's signature and date, in ink, on recto and captioned, in a calligraphic handwriting, on mount recto; in the original box. 1902-1912

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Maney, a military historian and writer, who authored The Story of Old Ft. Johnson (1909) and Lake George and Lake Champlain: The War Trail of the Mohawk (1910), was a talented photographer whose work recalls the poetic images of the Photo-Secessionist William Post.

accompanied by--Group of 21 platinum and silver prints by Charles Job, measuring 6x4.5 inches (15.2x11.4 cm.), and smaller, one with Job's monogram. 1900-1905.