Lot 20: Alice Boughton, Baby and child.

Boughton (1866 – 1943) was a photography student at the Pratt Institute in New York, where Gertrude Käsebier was a student as well. Boughton became Käsebier’s assistant. She operated a successful portrait studio in New York. She became associated with Alfred Stieglitz, and became a Fellow of the Photo Secession. Several of her photographs were published in Camera Work. These are two photographs. One, ca. 1910, is of a baby, identified as her daughter “Jane” in pencil on the verso. It is a platinum print, 5 7/8 x 7 ¾ inches mounted on an 11 x 14 inch board. It is signed lightly in pencil on the bottom left, and has her curious monogram drawn in pen on the mount. The other photograph is a gelatin silver print, made several years later, showing Margaret and Jane Boughton, as identified in pencil on the verso. It is 7 ¼ x 5 ½ inches, on a 8 5/8 x 6 inch backing, that is in turn mounted on a 14 x 10 `3/5 inch mount. It is signed in light pencil on the bottom left, and has her monogram drawn in pen.

Condition codes are [4] and [4-]