PAUL STRAND (1890-1976)

Archie MacDonald, South Uist

Details

PAUL STRAND (1890-1976)
Archie MacDonald, South Uist
Gelatin silver print. 1954. Signed Paul Strand, titled, dated and inscribed Master by Hazel Strand, with various numbers and other annotations in pencil on the reverse of the flush-mount.
5 7/8 x 4 5/8in. (15 x 11.7cm.) Framed.

Provenance

Property of a New England Private Collector, Sotheby's, New York, 18 April 1996, lot 266;
to the present owner.

Literature

Greenough, Paul Strand, p. 140.

Exhibited

Paul Strand Retrospective, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2 December 1990 - 3 February 1991,
and six other venues including The Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Mueseum; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Lot Essay

Believed to be the only extant contact print of this negative, Hazel Strand's annotation Master suggests this print was to be used as a guide for all future printings of this negative. The tape marks on the verso suggest that this print was used for the reproduction in Strand's Tir a Mhurain (New York and London, 1962). The number 12 on the verso likely corresponds to the sequencing of this image in the maquette.

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