Pennsylvania Farm Scene

Details

American School, 19th Century
Pennsylvania Farm Scene
reverse of stretcher bears label Berenice Abbott/ 50 Commerce Street/ New York 14, N.Y.
oil on canvas
27 ½ x 36 ¼ in.

Provenance

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), New York
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut
Catherine and Howard Feldman
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 23 June 1988, lot 157
Joy and Richard Kanter, Philadelphia
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 18 January 2002, lot 655

Exhibited

Storrs, Connecticut, The William Benton Museum of Art, Nineteenth Century Folk Painting, 1973.

Lot Essay

This farm scene was formerly owned by Berenice Abbot (1898-1991), one of America's most celebrated 20th-century photographers. Born in Springfield, Ohio, she began her career in Paris as the darkroom assistant to Man Ray. In 1929, she moved to New York to begin her series Changing New York. Many of these photos documenting the effects of the depression on New York City became some of her most iconic works. This style of documentary photography would influence her work for the rest of her career.

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