Mar 23, 2010 - Sale 2208

Sale 2208 - Lot 93

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
PARTRIDGE, ROI (1888-1984)
"Pepper Tree Pattern [Santa Barbara Mesa]." Silver print, 10 1/4x12 1/4 inches (26x31.1 cm.), with Partridge's signature, title, date and notations, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1940

Additional Details

Partridge's handwritten notations read, "Bought ($25.00) by the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., 9/17/41. By Beaumont Newhall, Curator of Photography" (indicating that MOMA acquired a print of this same image).
Originally in the collection of the Partridge family; acquired from the Annex Gallery, Santa Rosa in 1991.
The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 80.