varnished platinum print, flush-mounted to off-white card and flush-mounted again to brown card, signed, titled, and dated in black ink and with 'NE - ARCH - 798 TII' and other annotations by the Paul Strand Archive in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Paul Strand: An American Vision exhibition label on the reverse, 1936

The Paul Strand Archive

The Weston Gallery, Carmel

Collection of 7-Eleven, Inc.

Sotheby's New York, Photographs from the Collection of 7-Eleven, Inc., 5 and 6 April 2000, Sale 7448, Lot 17

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., Paul Strand: An American Vision, December - February 1991, and traveling to other locations through November 1992

Sarah Greenough, Paul Strand: An American Vision (Aperture, 1990), p. 75 (this print)

This impressive, warm-toned early print, with its astonishing detail and range of gray tones, is on semi-matte surface paper that has been flush-mounted twice--first to off-white card and again to thin brown card. As is typical of Strand's platinum prints from this period, it has been coated by the photographer with wax or varnish. The print is in generally excellent condition. It has been trimmed closer to the negative edge along the right size, tapering towards the lower right corner. Both flush-mounts extend, with some excess dry-mounting tissue, beyond the edges of the print. Their edges are somewhat rubbed, and the corners of the flush-mount are bumped. The reverse of the secondary brown mount is somewhat soiled and age-darkened. In addition to the photographer's title, date, and signature in black ink, the following notations, in pencil, are present, written in unidentified hands: "good print" "NE - ARCH - 798 TII" "113E" "safe 1"
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According to the Paul Strand Archive, the present print is unique in platinum.  Aside from the present print, two later silver prints are known to exist.