WINTER – Along the Hudson

WINTER – Along the Hudson

Winter Along the Hudson (River) earned amateur photographer Charles A. Hellmuth first prize and $15.00 for the second month of the (New York) Evening Post’s Winter Camera Contest. It was reproduced along with other contest prizewinners in the February 24, 1923 edition of the newspaper.

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Title

WINTER – Along the Hudson

Photographer

Chas. A. Hellmuth

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Dimensions

Image Dimensions18.5 x 24.4 cm corner glued to primary mount

Support Dimensions31.6 x 35.4 cm | 36.1 x 43.0 cm (window overmat)

Print Notes

Recto: Signed by the artist with his black ink stamp at LR corner of mount: Hellmuth & hand-drawn 23′

Verso: Small white logo label for Pictorial Photographers of America; large white paper label with following:

WINTER- Along the Hudson. #7

Chas. A. Hellmuth
338 W. 22nd St.,
New York

73 (circled)

Additionally signed in black pen in unknown hand: 1st Prize January 1923
New York Evening Post Winter Camera Contest
#7

Provenance

Purchased for this archive in July, 2012 from seller in Hilton, N.Y. who purchased it earlier from the Rochester, N.Y. estate of Joseph Foote Hellmuth, the artist’s son. (1928-2014)