melinda-blauvelt-american-b-1949-i-young-girl-mardi-gras-new-orleans-la-1981-i
Lot 1087
Melinda Blauvelt (American, b. 1949), Young Girl, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, LA, 1981
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
C-print, 1981, retains gallery label to frame verso, matted and framed.

DOA 26 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.

From the estate of the late Mary L. Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

As a graduate student at Yale University, Melinda Blauvelt helped organize a retrospective exhibition of Walker Evans' photographs at the Yale Art Gallery in 1971. She was also an assistant professor of art at the University of Virginia and lectured at Smith Collage and Harvard University.

A talented photographer herself, a print of this photograph is in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art.

Good estate condition; some slight fading; not examined out of frame.