Laura Gilpin

platinum print, hinged to a later mount, signed and annotated 'a platinum print' in pencil on the mount, the photographer's 'Santa Fe, New Mexico' printed studio label with typed title on the reverse, framed, circa 1930

The photographer to her assistant, Sina Brush, 1970s

Andrew Smith and Claire Lozier, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Charles Isaacs, Malvern, Pennsylvania

Sotheby's New York, Photographs from the Collection of Joseph and Laverne Schieszler, 10 October 2005, Sale 8164, Lot 4

This luminous, warm-toned vintage platinum print is in generally excellent condition. There is a slight sheen to its surface, suggesting that Gilpin waxed it. Along the lower margin edge are the remains of 2 thin strips of paper tape, indicating that this print was previously attached to an earlier mount. There is minor wear to the upper and left margin edges of the print.
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Another print of this image, also a platinum print, was in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and was sold in these rooms in the sale of Important Photographs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including Works from The Gilman Paper Company Collection, on 14-15 February 2006.