Rare FATHER DIVINE Photo By Noted Black Photographer (12/29/2006)

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Sold Date: 12/29/2006
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

Rare Vintage FATHER DIVINE taken at Scurlock Studios in Washington. Measures 12 x 7 3/4 inches in unique hand crafted wood frame. Addison Scurlock, founder of the Scurlock Photographic Studio, took portraits of such notables as educators Booker T. Washington and Mary McLeod Bethune, composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, engineer Archie Alexander, political leader W.E.B. DuBois, former first lady Mamie Eisenhower, singer Billy Eckstine, physician Charles R. Drew, opera singer Madame Lillian Evanti and poet Sterling Brown. This highly respected photographer also documented key moments in Washington, D.C. history. Addison Scurlock was born on June 19, 1883 in Fayettesville, North Carolina. He graduated from high school t, which was a significant achievement for an African-American of the time. In 1900, he moved with his family to Washington, D.C. His father, George Clay Scurlock, who had previously run unsuccessfully for the North Carolina Senate, worked as a messenger for the U.S. Treasury Department, while studying law and later opened a law office on the 1100 block of U Street. Addison Scurlock began his career as a photographer as an apprentice to Moses P. Rice, who had studios on Pennsylvania Avenue. Between, 1900 and 1904, he learned the basics of photographic portraiture and the entire range of laboratory work. In 1904, Scurlock started his own business at his parents' home on the 500 block of Florida Avenue. He focused on photographing students at Howard University, M Street and Armstrong high schools, and black universities and high schools throughout the South. In 1907, he won a gold medal for photography at the Jamestown Exposition. He opened the Scurlock Studio at 900 U Street (the African-American community's theater district) in 1911 and concentrated on portraiture and general photography. His clients included brides, achievers, conventioneers, and socialites. A 1976 Washington Post article by Jacqueline Trescott read "For years one of the marks of arriving socially in black Washington was to have your portrait hanging in Scurlock's window." His portraiture is described in Washington History by author Jane Freundel Levy as follows: "T is, however, a Scurlock 'look,' a very high technical quality in which light plays evenly and attractively across the features of the subjects. The portraits are carefully retouched to mask eye circles or crow's feet and to create even-textured complexions...Perhaps the most distinctive hallmark of the Scurlock photograph is the dignity, the uplifting quality of the demeanor of every person, captured by photographers who clearly saw each subject as above the ordinary." THE BUYER WILL PAY $7.00 FOR SHIPPING. PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR MORE FATHER DIVINE ITEMS.