Lot Essay
There are three variant images of this view that Strand executed, including the image offered here. This image, and perhaps this very print, was included in Nancy Newhall's exhibition and catalogue of Strand's photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, "Photographs, 1915-1945 by Paul Strand", April 25-June 10, 1945. It is uncertain whether this was the print exhibited. If it were, the possibility exists that Strand either lent an older print for the exhibition, making this print "vintage" or perhaps printed one for it as he did with several others, in which case it could be considered "later".
A few facts are known about the image however. The negative was made on an 8 x10in. plate and, according to Anthony Montoya of the Paul Strand Archive, there were only three other prints of this image known to exist when Strand's estate was catalogued. These other three are all in public collections, one at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; one at the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris and the other at the Bibliothéque Nationale, ex-collection, Hazel Strand, making this the only known print in private hands.
A few facts are known about the image however. The negative was made on an 8 x10in. plate and, according to Anthony Montoya of the Paul Strand Archive, there were only three other prints of this image known to exist when Strand's estate was catalogued. These other three are all in public collections, one at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; one at the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris and the other at the Bibliothéque Nationale, ex-collection, Hazel Strand, making this the only known print in private hands.