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Ralph Steiner 1899–1986

American Rural Baroque

1928
vintage gelatin silver print 8 h × 10 w in (20 × 25 cm)
estimate: $2,500–3,500
result: $699
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Signed, titled, dated and inscribed to verso ‘American Rural Baroque - the MOMA calls it. That's agreeable to me, but Baroque is more celebrative. Ralph Steiner 1928 - Mechanicsville, N.Y.’.
literature: "Vanishing Backyards," Fortune, May 1930, pg. 78 A Point of View, Steiner, pg. 56 Walker Evans & Company, Galassi, pl. 30 Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, ed., pg. 105

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