21 Signed original A. Aubrey Bodine photographs will be auctioned at Alex Cooper Saturday, January 29, 2022 @ 10:00 AM.
This auction is In-Person and On-Line. Images include Hunting, Tobacco Farming, Maritime, Thomas Point Light, Colts v Bears, Trains, Horse Farms, and other Bodine subject matter.
Lots # 1273 thru # 1293
On-line bidding is currently available @ www.alexcooper.com.
Contact:
John Locke, Alex Cooper 443-470-1417
Jennifer B. Bodine, Estate of A. Aubrey Bodine, 410-479-1312
jbb@aaubreybodine.com
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1906, A. Aubrey Bodine began photographing in the early 1920s and continued a long and prolific career until his death in 1970. In 1927, at the early age of 21, Bodine became the feature photographer for the Baltimore Sunday Sun. For over forty years, Bodine’s photographs were published every week in the Sunday magazine. His popularity in the Mid-Atlantic States was unprecedented. Bodine was devoted to a style of photography often referred to as “pictorialism,” which had its roots in the late 19th and early 20th century. Pictorial photographers sought to separate themselves from the scientific applications of photography and wanted to be considered “artists.” To that end, Bodine’s approach to photography was a painterly style, which often stressed soft-focus imagery as well as expressive printing. Bodine was awarded Honorary Fellowships in the Photographic Society of America and the National Press Photographers Association, the first photographer to be acclaimed so acclaimed by both associations. Please see www.aaubreybodine.com for more images and entertainment.
Lot # 1273 – Maryland Fox Hunters (1933) The first fox hunting in America was done as early as 1650 in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. The sport was introduced by Robert Brooke who came from England in his own private ship with 28 servants and a pack of hounds. In 1730 eight pairs of English red foxes were liberated on the Eastern Shore. This marked the beginning in America of fox hunting in its present form. Many famous hunt clubs are to be found in the tidewater country of Maryland and Virginia.
Lot#1275 – Early Morning Mist (1950 ) Horses in Carroll County.
Lot #1286 – Thomas Point Light (c1950) Scattered throughout the Chesapeake and its tributaries are a great variety of lighthouses that have warned and guided mariners in all sorts of weather. Located at the South River entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, the Thomas Point Light was built in 1825 and is still in operation. The last manned lighthouse on the Chesapeake, it was automated in 1986.This photograph appeared in Chesapeake Bay and Tidewater by A. Aubrey Bodine, published by Bodine & Associates.
Lot #1287 – Druid Hill Park (1952) Two skaters enjoy the lake near the Druid Hill Park boat house. Druid Hill Park is a 745-acre urban park in northwest Baltimore, Maryland. Its boundaries are marked by Druid Park Drive (north), Swann Drive and Reisterstown Road (west and south), and the Jones Falls Expressway (east). The land was originally part of “Auchentorlie”, the estate of Dr. George Buchanan (1696-1750), one of the seven commissioners responsible for the 1729 establishment of Baltimore City; Buchanan’s country estate included 579 of the 745 acres that comprise Druid Hill Park today. Renamed “Druid Hill” by Col. Nicholas Rogers, who married Eleanor Buchanan, it was purchased in 1860 by the City of Baltimore from descendent Lloyd Rogers with municipal funds raised by the revenue derived from a one-cent park tax on the nickel horsecar fares, put through by Mayor Thomas Swann (later Governor of Maryland). After its purchase, Druid Hill Park was inaugurated by Swann on October 19, 1860.
Lot #1278 – Amos Mill (1964) Water pours from the open sluice and over the water wheel of this 200-year-old Harford County grist mill, one of the few of the kind that are still in operation. Mr. John Amos’s tool shop (Inside) has many tools that were hand forged and are over 100 years old. Corn is dumped into a hopper and is ground to cornmeal by the grinding stones. Buckwheat also goes into the hopper to be ground. Water pours over the wheel of the 200-year-old Harford County Amos Grist Mill, one of the few of the kind that are still in operation. Norrisville or Norristown west of York Road near Pennsylvania line. The mill stands on Amos Road, off State Route 136, not far from Norrisville.
Lot #1289 – Dipping Soft Crabs (1959) Crab shanties showing floats where crabs “peel” becoming soft shell crabs. Tangier Island waterman harvesting peelers from the crab pen.
