Group of six black-and-white photographs of elderly Jews from the "Sabbath Studies" series (WPA Federal Arts Project).

(PHOTOGRAPHY). EAGLE, ARNOLD

New York, 1937

Silver prints. Four laid down onto older mats. Two with Eagle's signature, captions, negative number, notations and hand-stamps on verso.

Hungarian born Arnold Eagle (1909-1992) immigrated to New York City with his family in 1929. In 1935 he began working for the Works Progress Administration and two years later commenced the present series for the Federal Art Project depicting the customs of Orthodox Jewish life on the Lower East Side of New York.