Quigley, Edward. Edward Quigley: American Modernist.

Houk Friedman, 1991. First and only edition. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 17 through June 1, 1991.  Wraps, like new with custom-made 4-mil polyester jacket.  96 pages. 116 black and white illustrations, many full page. Texts by Barry Friedman and Robert A. Sobieszek. Edward W. Quigley (1898-1977) became a professional photographer in 1918 and opened his own studio in Philadelphia in 1930.  He produced a large volume of editorial and advertising photographs in the 1930s. This excellent retrospective provides high quality reproductions of a range of his work, including portraits, light abstractions, cut cardboard abstractions, architecture, and more.  As explained by Sobieszek, “A modernist artist, his work encompassed as many techniques, genres, and experimental directions as he could explore, eschewing the romantic and aspiring to create pure formal beauty.”  Quigley’s work has been sold at auctions at Christie’s, Phillips du Pury, and Swann Galleries.  His work was published in the 1942 U.S. Camera Annual and Poet’s Camera (1946). More recently he was included in Images from the Machine Age: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection (ICP, 1997), Not issued with an ISBN number.