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Ruth Orkin

American Girl in Italy

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10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Ruth Orkin

1921 - 1985

American Girl in Italy


mural-sized gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, the Orkin/Engel Archive label,titled, dated, and signed by Mary Engel, The Photographer's daughter, in ink and with edition '18/25' in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Fahey Klein Gallery label on the reverse

image: 32½ by 47¾ (83.6 by 121.3 cm.)

frame: 42¾ by 57½ in. (108.6 by 146.1 cm.)

Executed in 1952, printed no later than 1985.

Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Ruth Orkin. A Retrospective (New York, 1995), p. 9

Ruth Orkin, American Girl in Italy, The Making of a Classic (New York, 2005), cover and pl. 10