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  Carl van Vechten, “Leotyne Price” 1953

  CARL VAN VECHTEN (1880-1964) USA

  Leontyne Price    1953

  Signed: Leontyne Price as Bes, Porgy & Bess, XVII KK 20, May 19, 53 (in ink on back); PHOTOGRAPH BY CARL VAN VECHTEN, 101 CENTRAL PARK WEST, CANNOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION (ink stamp on back)

  Size: H: 9 5/8” x W: 7 1/8”

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  Archibald Knox / Liberty & Co. Sterling hand mirror 1908

  ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933) UK

  LIBERTY & CO. London, UK

  Hand mirror  1908

  Sterling with large matrix cabochon turquoise

  Marks: L & Co. cipher, Birmingham assay marks for 1908

  Similar works with turquoise Illustrated: Archibald Knox, ed. by Stephen A. Martin (London: Academy Editions, 1995) ; Liberty Design 1874-1914, Barbara Morris (London: Pyramid Books, 1989) p. ; The Designs of Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co., A.J. Tilbrook (London: Ornament Press Ltd., 1976)

  L: 11″

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  Roycroft / American Arts & Crafts Pair of Candlesticks c. 1915

  ROYCROFT COPPER SHOP East Aurora, N.Y.

  Pair of candlesticks c. 1915.

  Hand wrought and textured copper, silver-plated.

  Marks: impressed R, in orb with cross, ROYCROFT

  For more information see: The American Arts & Crafts Movement in Western New York 1900-1928, Bruce A. Austin (Rochester Institute of Technology, 1992); Arts & Crafts Movement in New York State 1890’s – 1920’s, Coy Ludwig (Hamilton, N.Y.: Gallery Association of New York, 1983).

  H: 6″ x W: 6 7/8″ x D: 2 5/8″

   

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  György Kepes, Abstraction, Gelatin silver print, 1942

  GYÖRGY KEPES (1906-2001) Hungary/USA

  Abstraction 1942

  Silver gelatin print

  Signed: 9 (in a circle, on back); Gyorgy Kepes 1942 (in ink on back)

  György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1947 He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.

  Framed size: H: 29 3/16” x W: 25 ¼”