Frederick Sommer 1905-1999

mounted, signed, titled, and dated (twice) by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, matted, framed, 1949, printed later 

Acquired from Frederick Sommer by Andrew Roth of Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York, 1997

Acquired by Nancy Richardson from the above, 1997

Other prints of this image:

John Weiss, ed., Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1980, in conjunction with the exhibition), fig. 37

Sommer: Images (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1980), pl. 12

Keith F. Davis, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage (Prescott and New Haven, 2005), p. 30

Michael Torosian, Frederick Sommer: The Constellations That Surround Us (Lumiere Press, 1992), p. 27

Aperture 10:4, 1962, p. 144

This print, on paper with a surface sheen, is in excellent condition.
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As of this writing the Frederick Sommer Foundation records no more than 21 prints of this image.