
Photographs
Edwin F Townsend 'Nude with Chains', c.1930-40
Edwin F Townsend 'Nude with Chains', c.1930-40
£1,000.00
Edwin F Townsend American, 1879-1957
Nude with Chains, c.1930-40
£1,000
Silver Bromide
Print on board
25cm x 20cm (52cm x 42cm framed)
In the mid-1920s, Townsend supplemented studio income from portraiture with nudes (sold to ‘art’ magazines and privately by mail order), by shooting male physique photographs. Sansone was the most famous of his models. Provenance: J W Anderson, fashion designer.