At the Market

At the Market

This documentary image, most likely taken in an outdoor produce market in New York City, shows a woman with an oversized sun bonnet clutching her shopping basket while eyeing some grapes hanging in a nearby stall. The mount verso carries the white label for: Member Pictorial Photographers of America and the artist’s NY address: 329 W. 22nd St.

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Supports Fashion Documentary Women: Occupational Cityscape Fruit Vegetables
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Dimensions

Image Dimensions19.8 x 28.2 cm laid down

Support Dimensions32.2 x 40.3 cm with overmatt: 51.0 x 40.7 cm

Print Notes

Recto: Exhibition print signed by the artist in graphite at LR corner of primary mount: Hellmuth N.Y.

Verso: White label for: MEMBER PPA PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS OF AMERICA; titled in black in by artist: #1 At the Market.; artists inkstamp: Chas. A. Hellmuth | (329) W. 22nd St., | New York; protective Kraft paper print cover with exhibition instructions: Bromoil ⎯ Please donot detach this cover | Turn to back of mount | Return cover when packing.

 

 

 

Provenance

Purchased for this archive in July, 2012 from dealer in Hilton, N.Y. who conducted an estate clean-out of former Rochester, N.Y. home of Joseph Foote Hellmuth, the son of artist Charles A. Hellmuth.

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