Lot 51: - George C. Cox , 1851-1903 SELECTED PORTRAIT STUDIES

a group of 31 Portrait photographs, including Clarence King (illustrated), Grover Cleveland , and William Randolph Hearst , platinum and silver prints, 12 mounted, all but one blindstamped, 1880s-90s (31)

measurements note most approximately 9 1/4 by 7 1/4 in. (23.5 by 18.4 cm.)

Acquired from Robert Cox, 1962

PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
The Identified Portraits are as follows: Ida M. Tarbell Clarence King (2 different poses) Richard Watson Gilder, editor, Century Magazine W. R. Hearst S. S. McCleese, editor Bishop Taylor H. H. Richardson, architect William Dean Howells Grover Cleveland Joseph Evans, artist (3 different poses) a Mr. Hazard In addition, there are: an unidentified portrait of a priest; 7 unmarked portraits of women in various poses, most from the waist up, or bust length; and 9 unmarked portraits of men in various poses, most from the waist up, or bust length (3 of these unmarked male portraits are of the same sitter). The full catalogue information for this lot is as follows: a group of 31 Portrait photographs, including Clarence King [pictured in teh catalogue illustration], Ida M. Tarbell, William Randolph Hearst, S. S. McCleese, Richard Watson Gilder, H. H. Richardson, William Dean Howells, Joseph Evans, and many others, platinum and silver prints, 12 mounted, all but one with the photographer's blindstamp on the mount, some, but not all, captioned in unidentified hands in pencil and ink on the reverse of the print or mount, 1880s-90s (31) George C. Cox of New York, was, in his day, considered one of the finest portrait photographers in America. He opened his studio in 1883, and photographed the wealthy and famous for over a decade, among them the leading artists, politicians, writers and editors, and beauties of the time. One of his most reproduced portraits was that of Walt Whitman, offered in these rooms 22 and 23 October 2002, as a part of Lot 151.