Photographs

PAUL OUTERBRIDGE, JR. | THANKSGIVING SCENE

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April 3, 05:19 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

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PAUL OUTERBRIDGE, JR.

1896-1958

THANKSGIVING SCENE

color carbro print, mounted, signed and annotated 'Property of Paul Outerbridge, Jr. / 49 W. 74th St.' in ink, a Laguna Beach Museum of Art label, a Smithsonian Institution exhibition label, and a typed caption on the reverse, 1936

15¾ by 11½ in. (40 by 29.2 cm.)

By descent to Lois Outerbridge, the photographer's widow

Gift of the above to Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 1968

Christie's New York, 3 October 1996, Sale 8482, Lot 298

Dorothy Blake, 'The Stuffing and the Fixings,' House Beautiful, November 1936, p. 32 (likely this print)

Elaine Dines, ed., Paul Outerbridge: A Singular Aesthetic, Photographs & Drawings 1921-1941 (Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 1981), no. 375, p. 186 (this print)

Washington, D. C., The Smithsonian Institution, Paul Outerbridge, Jr., March - April 1959

This photograph may be unique. No other prints were in the photographer's estate at the time it was gifted to Laguna Beach Museum of Art in 1968.