Sep 26, 2024 - Sale 2679

Sale 2679 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500

RUTH ORKIN (1921-1985)


White cars, snow, West 88th Street, New York * From My Window, 53 West 88th Street, Manhattan. Circa 1952.
Together, 2 silver prints, the images measuring 16x23¾ cm and 22¼x34 cm, 6¼x9⅜ and 8¾x13⅜ inches; each with two of Orkin's address stamps and the first with her copyright stamp, and both with her title in ink, on verso.

"From Horatio Street, I moved to 53 West 88th Street in 1950. It was a second story brownstone apartment with a beautiful bay window. I took black and white pictures from that window for four years. I loved watching the life on the street." - RUTH ORKIN.