Eleanor Parke Custis (American, 1897-1983), Untitled (Reclining Nude in Sand Dunes)

Gelatin silver print, 1930s, stamped to the verso, matted and framed below glass.

Sight size 11 x 10 1/2 in.; Frame dimensions 21 x 20 1/4 in.

Private Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina

Eleanor Parke Custis was an American photographer and painter known for her Pictorialist photographs and watercolor landscapes. A student of Edmund C. Tarbell at the Corcoran School of Art, she exhibited internationally and authored Composition and Pictures (1935), an influential book on photographic composition. Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Cape Ann Museum, and the Peabody Essex Museum

Good estate condition, not examined outside the frame.

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