Jan 27, 2022 - Sale 2593

Sale 2593 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

RUSSELL LEE (1903-1986)


A group of 5 photographs depicting children.
Silver prints, the images measuring 177.8x244.5 to 336.6x266.7 mm; 7x9 5/8 to 13 1/4x10 1/2 inches, four sheets slightly larger, each with Lee's signature and a numeric notation, in ink or pencil, one with the title, date, and notations, in pencil, and one with Lee's F.S.A. credit hand stamp and the typed title and date, in ink, on verso. 1937-40; three printed 1970s.

Coat rack in hall, grade school, San Augustine, Texas, 1939 * Young boy playing with truck, late 1930s * Two of the Bodray children in their home near Tipler, Wisconsin, 1937; printed 1970s * Children play with the goats at all day Sunday visiting, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940; printed 1970s * Children at the blackboard, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, 1938; printed 1970s.