Lot 108: LOUIS FLECKENSTEIN (1866-1943) Selected images, 1930s 4 gelatin silver p

LOUIS FLECKENSTEIN (1866-1943) Selected images, 1930s 4 gelatin silver prints, three signed in pencil on the mount; each with credit, title, various annotations in pencil, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry accession stamp, variously numbered in red wax pencil and Chicago Museum of Science and Industry accession label affixed on the verso. (4) various sizes from 13 1/2 x 10 1/2in (34.2 x 26.8cm) to 7 5/8 x 9 5/8in (19.4 x 24.5cm) mount 14 x 18in (35.6 x 45.7cm) and 20 x 16in (50.8 x 40.6cm)

Provenance From the artist; to Dr. Max Thorek; to the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago In 1902 Louis Fleckenstein co-founded the Salon Club of America, an organization devoted to the nationwide promotion of the various regional clubs of Pictorialist photographers. Having established an international reputation from exhibiting at The Royal Photographic Society in London (including these four prints), Fleckenstein opened a portrait studio in Los Angeles in 1907. In 1914, along with a young Edward Weston and others, he co-founded the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. Fleckenstein later moved to Long Beach, where he continued to exhibit and publish his work as the city’s first commissioner for the arts. These photographs, all vintage exhibition prints, were given by Fleckenstein to Dr. Max Thorek, Chicago surgeon extraordinaire and a gifted photographer in his own right. PHOTOGRAPHY 121