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STRUSS, KARL (1886-1981)
A portfolio titled “Karl Struss:A Portfolio, 1909/29,”with 15 photographs spanning the early decades
of Struss’ career. Platinum prints, sizes ranging from 2
3
/
4
x3
1
/
2
to 4
3
/
8
x3
5
/
8
inches (7x8.9 to 11.1x9.2
cm.), and the reverse, each tipped to stiff mounts, with Struss’ signature, in pencil, on print verso, and
with the edition notation 34/75, also in pencil, on mount recto.Tall 4to, black clamshell box with
Struss’ gilt-lettered monogram, worn; the colophon with Struss and Phil Davis’ (the printer)
signatures, and the edition number, in ink; contents loose as issued. 1909-1929; printed 1979
[10,000/15,000]
From the Kathleen Ewing Gallery; to the present owner in 1979.
“The Balcony, Sorrento,” 1909 * “Arverne, Low Tide,” 1912 * “Mercedes Autobus, Fifth Avenue &
38th Street, NewYork,” circa 1912 * “Shadows, NewYork,” 1909 * “Consolidated Edison from the
Second Avenue Elevated, New York,” circa 1912 * “Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower, New York,”
1909 * “Pennsylvania Station, New York,” 1911 * “Lower Broadway, New York,” 1912 * “‘The
Ghost Ship’—Waterfront, East Side, NewYork,” 1912 * “Vanishing Point II: Brooklyn Bridge from
NewYork side,” 1912 * “Brooklyn Bridge, Nocturne,” circa 1913 * “Brooklyn Bridge from Ferry Slip,
Evening,” 1912 * “Cables—New York Skyline through Brooklyn Bridge,” 1912 * “Storm Clouds,
Ma Mesa, California,” 1921 * “Sails: En route to Catalina,” 1929.
