Original 1958 Morris Rosenfeld & Sons 'sceptre' America's Cup Yacht Photograph

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This is just a great original piece. I actually have a personal collection of Morris Rosenfeld photographs. I recently acquired … more This is just a great original piece. I actually have a personal collection of Morris Rosenfeld photographs. I recently acquired a few more and have decided to sell a couple of them. For those not familiar with the photographer, I have included his biography below. This is a wonderful original sailboat portrait from 1958 or the Sailboat "Sceptre'. Image measures 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches on original mount measuring 20 x 16 inches. The photograph is in outstanding original condition. Really stunning with just some very faint silvering along the edges as is expected in photographs like these. It is signed in pen "Morris Rosenfeld & Sons" on the mount lower right below the image. As you can see the mount has some issues from an older matte being glued down. It has left a toning matte box around the edge as well as shows paper loss from where it was removed. On the back of the mount is the date and details about the yacht. It also has the photographers original stamp from their studio in New York as well as some sort of pen inventory number. Ready to be archival framed, this is truly a wonderful original Rosenfeld photograph. If you collect Rosenfeld, check my store for the other I am listing. I also have some wonderful Levick yachting photographs as well.

For those not familiar with the photographer his biography from one of the many museums he is in reads: "Morris Rosenfeld, known as “Rosie” to two generations of yachtsmen, was admired for the poetic skill with which he recorded their sport from 1899 on. He was acknowledged as the dean of yachting photography by every journalist and editor in the field for decades. Rosenfeld, who began his trade in grammar school with an ancient box camera, set up his own shop in 1910, “Morris Rosenfeld and Sons.” From 1920 onward, Rosie personally covered every major yachting event within his reach on the East Coast, publishing his photos in every magazine and newspaper concerned with these events. Readers treasured the painstaking care and breathtaking sweep of his work from Long Island Sound to the unforgettable moments of the America’s Cup. His first major book in 1947 was Sail Ho, followed by Under Full Sail in 1957, and Sailing for the America’s Cup in 1964. With his sons Stanley, Dave, and Bill, who joined him in the profession, Rosie became a constant and expected observer at every major regatta in his 33 foot camera boat FOTO. Rosenfeld helped found the Press Photographer’s Association and for many years served as Commodore of the Regatta Circuit Riders. Rosenfeld’s collection, which was sold to Mystic Seaport in 1981, included 250,000 slides, 300,000 film negatives, and 40,000 glass plates, along with thousands of printed photographs. " less