Jul 15, 2021 - Sale 2576

Sale 2576 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Wolf, Estelle (1886-1988)
Table with Sunshine Cookies.

Circa 1935.

Silver print with Wolf's signature in pencil on mount recto, the image measuring 6 3/4 x 9 in., the mount measuring 15 3/4 x 12 1/8 in.

Wolf worked as a WPA photographer in Detroit, where she documented federally funded projects in the area. Wolf founded Friends of Central Park and lived to the age of 102.

N.B. Estelle Wolf was a student of the Clarence White School of Photography from 1931-1932. During this period, she formed the photographic partnership Grinnell-Wolf, possibly with Clarence White School classmate Peter Grinnell. The signature here reflects the Grinnell-Wolf signature, and is in her hand.