Frederick Sommer 1905-1999

mounted, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, matted, framed, 1938, 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:

Frederick Sommer (Philadelphia College of Art, 1968, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 16

Keith F. Davis, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage (Prescott and New Haven, 2005), p. 75

Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House  (Köln, 2000), p. 648 

This print is in generally excellent condition.
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Eight Young Roosters is one of the earliest images in Sommer's series of photographs of chicken parts, begun in 1938.  For more information on this series, see Lot 78.  As of this writing, the Frederick Sommer Foundation records no more than 5 prints of this image.