Consign Now for June 2022: Focus on Women This past summer Swann held its first auction devoted to works by women. We are pleased to announce another edition of this sale, to be held in June 2022, once again spearheaded by Devon Eastland, our Early Printed Books Specialist, but offering a wide assortment of material. Consign Now Browse the 2021 Focus on Women Sale Results Artists & Photographers Right: Ruth Orkin, Comic Book Readers, silver print, 1947, printed later. Sold for $1,125. Complementing our last sale was a selection of art by women, including prints and photographs that portrayed or embodied the strength of women as creative contributors or highlighted the complications of living under gender-based oppression or bias. Gertrude Käsebier, Woman Artist, platinum print, circa 1910. Sold for $2,000. A group of nine posters from the Guerrilla Girls, including The Advantage of Being a Woman Artist. Sold for $2,500. Elizabeth Catlett, On the Subway, offset lithograph, 1986. Sold for $2,250. Corita Kent, Questions and Answers, screenprint, on fabric, 1966. Sold for $4,750. Historical Figures, Archives, Ephemera & More Left: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, signed dissenting opinion cover sheet, Shelby County v. Eric H. Holder, circa 2013. Sold for $4,750. Original material, archives, journals and letters with substantial content related to women’s experiences in the following areas: art making, the Black experience, civil rights, education, exploration, feminism, the indigenous experience, overlooked and underreported stories, sexuality, transgender women, STEM, suffrage, health, and the workplace are highly sought after. Jane Russell, an archive of letters written during a whaling voyage from Hawaii and other ports, 1840s. Sold for $30,000. Photo album compiled by Williams College undergraduate Jackson Edwin Guernsey documenting the Bathysphere, Nonsuch Island, Bermuda Deep Sea Expedition, 1930–31. Sold for $2,860. Authors & Rare Books Right: Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, Boston, 1869. Our consignment wishlist includes works by published authors: first editions, manuscripts, letters and signed material by writers including Louisa May Alcott, George Eliot, Phyllis Wheatley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, and many others, as well as gendered books on topics aimed at women and works published by women before 1800. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, first edition, London, 1929. Sold for $3,750. Guild of Women Binders, exhibition binding of A.F. Pollard’s Henry VIII, London, 1902. Sold for $12,350. Contact: Devon Eastland, Senior Specialist deastland@swanngalleries.com(212) 254-4710 ext. 18 Share Facebook Twitter November 5, 2021Author: Devon EastlandCategory: Focus On Women Tags: 19th & 20th Century Literature 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings African American Art African Americana American Art Americana autographs Books & Manuscripts Consignment Early Printed Books Focus on Women Photographs & Photobooks Prints & Drawings Previous Upcoming Highlights: Rare & Important Travel Posters—November 23, 2021 Next Latin-American Modernists Recommended Posts 19th & 20th Century Art: March 2021 Auction Highlights Prints & Drawings February 10, 2021 Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata Prints & Drawings September 8, 2017 A Fleeting Moment: Edward Hopper’s Evening Wind American Art April 4, 2014