Untitled (Seated woman, holding purse)

 

Earl Wood

 

1961  

photograph 

9 1/2 x 7 3/8" image size 

signed on verso in ink, dated "61" 

unstated 

 

 

silver halide photo paper 

published 

artist 

20720 

$175.00 

Earl Wood was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1928. He used his first camera in 1933, when photographing Niagara Falls and capturing his dad walking in the Boston Commons on a snowy day. At age 16 his photos of boats in the harbor were published in the rotogravure section of the Sunday paper of the Boston Globe and during high school he sketched and painted and went three times a week to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He spent summer vacations working as a photographer's assistant in Marblehead, Mass.