Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Margaret Bourke-White
Selected Images
Lot Closed
October 7, 02:07 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Margaret Bourke-White
1904 - 1971
Selected Images
7 gelatin silver prints, including Niagara Falls Power: Hydro-Generators (March of the Dynamos); Dolls in Higbee’s Window, Cleveland; Nursery in Auto Plant, Moscow; The Kremlin from the Moscow River, Moscow, U. S. S. R.; Russian Laborers; Margaret Bourke-White with her Mural for NBC; and NBC Microphone, each with hand-inked boarders, mounted to board, and signed in pencil on the mounts, 1928-1934 (7)
images: each approximately 9 by 13 in. (22.9 by 33 cm.) or the reverse
Gift of the Photographer to William Hazard Knowles
By descent in family to the present owner
Niagara Falls Power: Hydro-Generators (March of the Dynamos), 1928:
Sean Callahan, ed., The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White (Greenwich, 1972), p. 32
Stephen Bennett Phillips, Margaret Bourke White: The Photography of Design 1927 - 1936 (Washington, D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 2003), p. 2
Dolls in Higbee’s Window, Cleveland, 1929:
Sean Callahan, ed., The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White (Greenwich, 1972), p. 61
Margaret Bourke-White: The Cleveland Years (Cleveland: The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1976), pl. 42
Stephen Bennett Phillips, Margaret Bourke White: The Photography of Design 1927 - 1936 (Washington, D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 2003), p. 60
Nursery in Auto Plant, Moscow, 1931:
Jane Corkin, ed., Margaret Bourke-White Photographs (Toronto, 1988), cover and p. 23
Susan Goldman Rubin, Margaret Bourke-White: Her Pictures Were Her Life (New York, 1999). pp. 44-5
The Kremlin, Moscow, 1931:
Jane Corkin, ed., Margaret Bourke-White Photographs (Toronto, 1988), p. 17