Swann Galleries: The Artists of the WPA, 2727, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026

Page Size: 302 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	Carl Mydans	Carl Mydans, Cotton workers on the road, carrying all they possess in the world, Crittenden Co., Arkansas, 1936; printed 1960s.	1936; printed 1960s.	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
27	Dorothea Lange	Dorothea Lange, Three related drought refugee families from homes near Claremore, Oklahoma, 1937.	1937	USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00	Not Sold
28	John P. Heins	John P. Heins, Tompkin's Barn, circa 1937.	circa 1937.	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 1,651.00
29	Russell Lee	Russell Lee, A suite of 8 photographs documenting sugar cane farming in Louisiana, 1938.	1938	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
30	Joe Jones	Joe Jones, Missouri Wheat Farmers, 1938.	1938	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 1,524.00
31	Russell Lee	Russell Lee, Sugar Cane Worker in Louisiana * Doll Buggy on farm near Northome, Minnesota, Circa 1938 & September 1937.	circa 1938 & September 1937.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,079.00
32	Marion Post Wolcott	Marion Post Wolcott, Migrant vegetable pickers lined up behind truck in field to be paid off. Near Homestead, Florida, 1939; printed 1977.	1939; printed 1977.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 952.00
33	Marion Post Wolcott	Marion Post Wolcott, Young cotton pickers waiting in plantation store to be paid-off, Mileston, Miss, 1939; printed 1980s.	1939; printed 1980s.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,032.00
34	John Stockton De Martelly	John S. De Martelly, Looking at the Sunshine, 1939.	1939	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,270.00
35	John Vachon	John Vachon, Ozark Mountain Farmer and Family, Missouri, May 1940; printed 1950s.	May 1940; printed 1950s.	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,079.00
36	Thomas Hart Benton	Thomas Hart Benton, Instruction, 1940.	1940	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,159.00
37	Merritt Mauzey	Merritt Mauzey, Molten Skies, circa 1943.	circa 1943.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,904.00
38	Leonard Pytlak	Leonard Pytlak, Untitled (Winter Farm Scene), circa 1941.	circa 1941.	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 1,143.00
39	Jack Delano	Jack Delano, Negro tenant farmer couple living in an old mansion in southern Greene County, Georgia, June 1941.	1941	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,143.00
40	Georges Schreiber	Georges Schreiber, Rain, 1942.	1942	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 762.00
41	Louis Slobodkin	Louis Slobodkin, Mormon Couple, circa 1940s.	circa 1940s.	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 792.00
42	Louis Slobodkin	Louis Slobodkin, Farm Couple, circa 1940s.	circa 1940s.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,143.00
43	John (1833) Curry	John Steuart Curry, Sanctuary, 1944.	1944	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,206.00
44	Harry Gottlieb	Harry Gottlieb, Untitled (Field Workers).		USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 1,651.00
45	Thomas Hart Benton	Thomas Hart Benton, The Boy, 1948.	1948	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,302.00
46	Lewis W. Hine	Lewis W. Hine, A selection of 16 photographs from the Tennessee Valley Authority documenting construction of new electric homes, including 4 by Hine, 1933-34.	1933-34.	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
47	Arthur Rothstein	Arthur Rothstein, Group of three photographs depicting rural America, 1935-42.	1935-42.	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 2,159.00
48	Ben Shahn	Ben Shahn, The Home of a Family in the Negro Quarter, Natchez, Mississippi, October 1935.	October 1935.	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
49	Walker Evans	Walker Evans, Washroom and dining area of Floyd Burroughs' home, Hale County, Alabama. Summer 1936, printed 1970s.	Summer 1936, printed 1970s.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,079.00
50	Margaret Bourke-White	Margaret Bourke-White, Lansdale, Arkansas, 1937.	1937	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,397.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.