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JOHN RAWLINGS Modernist Nude 1966

JOHN RAWLINGS, Nude Modernist Study, c. 1966, 11.375x10.625" Gelatin silver print, Printed c. 1966, Miscellaneous annotations in pencil on print verso. For 30 years John Rawlings was one of Vogue's leading photographers. In the early 1950s, he created a series of photographs after Picasso, using models including actress Evelyn Frey. John Rawlings (1912-1970) was a Condé Nast Publications fashion photographer from the 1936 through the 1960s. Though Rawlings left a significant body of work, including 200 Vogue magazine and Glamour magazine covers to his credit, he never achieved the name and fame of his legendary colleagues and masters Cecil Beaten and Horst P. Horst…. His beginnings were unremarkable. Born in Ohio in 1912, John Rawlings attended the local Wesleyan University, and upon graduation in the early 1930s he relocated to New York, where he became a freelance store window dresser. After buying a Leica to photograph his work and show it to potential clients, Rawlings discovered that he enjoyed taking pictures and eventually started to photograph some of the aristocratic clients themselves, alone or with their dogs. A few of those shots found their way to the desk of Nast, who decided to offer Rawlings a job at the Vogue studios as prop builder, studio hand, and apprentice to the legendary masters Beaton and Horst. The young man was so dedicated and worked with such unbridled enthusiasm that four months later he not only was promoted to first assistant to the masters but also got his first photo published in the September 15 issue of Vogue. Impressed by his precocious talent and visual style, Nast and Chase rewarded him in 1937 with a job at the British Vogue studio in London, where he would train and work until the early 1940s. During his time there, Rawlings experimented with his style and began to develop his signature uses of light, setting and posing. His British Vogue work was so impressive it began circulating in French and American Vogue as well. Credit: https://agnautacouture.com/2015/11/01/john-rawlings-elevated-commercial-photography-to-an-art-form/ John Rawlings, would become one of the most prolific and important photographers of the twentieth century, with more than two hundred Vogue and Glamour covers to his credit. 

George V silver hot water jug, of baluster form with embossed decoration, wicker-bound handle, on stepped circular foot, by John Henry Rawlings, London, 1912, 17.5cm tall, gross weight 250g, 8oz,

George V silver hot water jug, of baluster form with embossed decoration, wicker-bound handle, on stepped circular foot, by John Henry Rawlings, London, 1912, 17.5cm tall, gross weight 250g, 8oz,

John Rawlings, Cecil Beaton, 1944

Numbered in the negative upper right. Photographer's and 'Condé Nast Publications, Inc.' stamps as well as numbered in pencil on the verso. John Rawlings, comparatively unknown in Europe, is counted among the most productive commercial photographers of the 20th century. Working over the course of three decades for Condé Nast, his pictures have been published on more than 200 covers of Vogue and Glamour. The portrait presented here shows Cecil Beaton whom he assisted during his early period at Vogue Studios and who distinctively influenced his early fashion photographs. 24.3 x 19.4 cm (25.1 x 20.3 cm)

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970): PORTRAIT OF REBECCA HARKNERR

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970): PORTRAIT OF REBECCA HARKNERR Gelatin silver print, with the artist's stamp on the reverse. 10 x 8 1/4 in. (image), 19 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (frame).

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970)

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970) Portrait of Irving Penn, September 1944 gelatin silver print titled and dated in pencil (verso) photographer's credit and Vogue Studios proof stamp (verso) numbered with negative number '9565-R-8' (upper margin, recto) 9 7/8 x 8in. (24.9 x 20.3cm.)

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970): FIVE PORTRAITS OF WOMEN AT HOME

Black and white photographs, with photographers stamp on verso; 10 x 8 in.

JOHN RAWLINGS (1911-1970)

JOHN RAWLINGS (1911-1970) Arched Nude, circa 1960 gelatin silver print 7 5/8 x 9 5/8in. (19.5 x 24.5cm.)

John Rawlings (American, 1912-1970) Untitled,

John Rawlings (American, 1912-1970) Untitled, 1960s; Gelatin silver print (printed ca. 1960s); 11'' x 8 5/8'' (sheet)

John Rawlings (American, 1912-1970) Nude Study,

John Rawlings (American, 1912-1970) Nude Study, ca. 1966; Gelatin silver print (printed ca. 1966); With studio stamp; 12 3/4'' x 9 1/2'' (sheet)

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970)

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970) Evelyn Frey, 1951 4 gelatin silver prints varying sizes from 9¾ x 8in. (24.8 x 20.3cm.) to 13½ x 10¼in. (34.3 x 26cm.) (4)

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970)

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970) Evelyn Frey, 1951 4 gelatin silver prints varying sizes from 9¾ x 8in. (24.8 x 20.3cm.) to 13½ x 10¼in. (34.3 x 26cm.) (4)

RAWLINGS, [JOHN] A group of five gelatin silver prints,

RAWLINGS, [JOHN] A group of five gelatin silver prints, no image dates, all on mounts stamped "Photography by Rawlings" on the rear, one image signed in ink by Rawlings below the image. Images vary from 13 x 10 inches (33 x 25 cm) to 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Some minor soiling or browning to some of the matts, some offsetting under the mats from tape used by the photographer for mounting purposes. Rawlings (1912-1970) was responsible for over 200 Vogue and Glamour photographs over his extensive career. See Kohle Yohannan John Rawlings: 30 Years in Vogue.

Evelyn Frey, 1951

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970) Evelyn Frey, 1951 4 gelatin silver prints varying sizes from 9¾ x 8in. (24.8 x 20.3cm.) to 13½ x 10¼in. (34.3 x 26cm.) (4)

¤John RAWLINGS (1912-1970) Evelyn Frey, vers 1951 Tirage argentique d'époque monté sur carton

¤John RAWLINGS (1912-1970) Untitled (nude reclining on bed), années 1960 Tirage argentique d'époque

¤John RAWLINGS (1912-1970) Untitled (Nude Study on Chair), vers 1960 Tirage argentique d'époque monté sur carton

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970)

Evelyn Frey, 1951 4 gelatin silver prints 9 3/4 x 8in. (24.8 x 20.3cm.) (1); 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (34.3 x 26cm.) (3) (4)

JOHN RAWLINGS (1912-1970)

Betty Biehn, c. 1950 2 gelatin silver prints one with '417 East 54th Street' copyright credit stamp (on the verso) each approx. 13 3/4 x 10 5/8in. (34.8 x 26.9cm.) (2)

JOHN RAWLINGS

Nude Gelatin silver print. Circa 1955. 9 3/8 x 51/4in. (23.8 x 13.4 cm).

JOHN RAWLINGS (BORN 1911)

Untitled (Nude and driftwood) Gelatin silver print. Circa 1950. 13 3/8 x 10 3/8in. (34 x 26.3cm.).

JOHN RAWLINGS 1912 - 1970

mounted, cropping notations in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount, a Condé Nast copyright stamp and credited, titled, and annotated in unidentified hands in pencil and crayon on the reverse, 1954

RAWLINGS, JOHN Group of 6 photographs of nude female models

RAWLINGS, JOHN

Group of 6 photographs of nude female models Silver prints, various sizes from 3 1/4 x3 1/4 to 7x5 inches, each with Rawlings's signature, in red pencil, on overmat. 1940s-1950s