Lot 118
118
EDWARD STEICHEN

Details
EDWARD STEICHEN

George Washington Bridge (1931)

Oversized gelatin silver print. 1950s-60s. Signed in pencil on the recto; inscribed South Wall, George Washington Bridge in pencil on the reverse of the masonite mountboard. 46¾ x 35in. Framed.
Provenance
Edward Steichen
Steichen estate sale, Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1972
current owner
Literature
See A Life in Photography, pl. 216 and The Imaginary Photo Museum, pl. 368 for another study from the series.

Lot Essay

A variant of this image was included in the first exhibition of fine art photographs at the Museum of Modern Art by Beaumont Newhall as well as in the exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932.