Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

147 c (BEN SHAHN; JACK DELANO; ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN; RUSSELL LEE) Group of 5 F.S.A. photographs. Silver prints, the images measuring 13 3 / 8 x10 3 / 8 inches (34x26.4 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with a Library of Congress hand stamp and the photographer’s credit, title, negative date (all but one), and numeric notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1935-40; printed 1960s-70s [2,000/3,000] Ben Shahn’s Sharecropper’s Wife and Children, Boone County, Arkansas, 1935 * Jack Delano’s Coal Miner, Near Penfield, Pennsylvania (Mr. Merritt Bundy of Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market at Du Bois, at the entrance to his mine on his farm), 1940 * Russell Lee’s North Dakota, 1937 * Arthur Rothstein’s Barn of Dairy Farmer, Windsor County, Vermont, 1936 and Garrett County, Maryland, 1936. 147 148 148 c WEEGEE (1899-1968) The Critic. Silver print, the image measuring 10 1 / 2 x12 3 / 4 inches (26.7x32.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Weegee’s 451 East 47th Street and Credit Photo by Weegee the Famous hand stamps, on verso. 1943; printed 1960s [6,000/9,000] Weegee, Naked City (Essential Books), p. 130; Weegee’s New York (Schirmer/Mosel), p. 213; Weegee’s World (Bulfinch Press), p. 172.