Nerve and Steel, Circa 1934, printed 1930’s
vintage photogravure
10 x 7 1/2 inches,
Framed: 20 x 16 inches
Framed: 20 x 16 inches
Printed with artist’s name and title
artist
Born in 1896 in Metropolis, Il, Wendell McaRae held various positions including with the government for which he traveled extensively. His work with film as a medium began about 1924 and in 1930 he opened his own photographic business. Recognition and success came quickly and he was included in an exhibition at New York’s Julien Levy Gallery. As a commercial photographer his longest-running assignment, from 1934 to 1941, was as photographer for a weekly published by Rockefeller Center at the height of it’s construction.