Margaret Bourke-White

warm-toned, with black borders, mounted on heavy buff paper, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's credit stamp on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1930s

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 1994

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 57 and 204 (this print)

This early warm-toned print, with Bourke-White's characteristic black ink borders, is mounted on slick buff-colored board. The print is in generally excellent condition. When examined in raking light, light silvering is visible at the edges. The mount is lightly soiled on the front and back. The edges of the mount are rubbed, and the corners are bumped, with some loss of the top paper ply. The mount is creased/cracked at the lower left corner, there is a tear at the right edge, and there are losses along the right edge. There are two very small cloth tape remains on the reverse at the upper edge. None of these issues affects the print.
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