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Lot 69
Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019
9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$138
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Lot Description
ARNOLD EAGLE (AMERICAN, 1909–1992) RUTH CURRIER DANCING IN "ODE"
Ca. 1950s. Title in pencil in an unknown hand on verso. Gelatin silver print mounted on board.
Image/sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 (17.8 x 18.4cm).
Board: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (24.8 x 19.7cm).
Arnold Eagle worked on a number of long-term documentary photography projects in New York City in the 1930s and 1940s, including one of the Martha Graham Dance Company, which he began shooting in 1944. Ruth Currier was a principal dancer for the José Limón Dance Company, and later its director.