Sherril Schell (1877-1964) Number Ten. New York, c. 1930. Vintage silver print, mounted on cardboard, signed in pencil on the mount lower right. Title in pencil on the reverse side of the mount. 29x23cm First a portrait photographer in England, the American Sherril Schell moved in the 1920's to New York whose changing physiognomy became the main object of his work . Using the vocabulary of a photographic modernism that was then being developed (plunging, low angle, framing aiming at abstraction, decontextualization), his prints were exhibited in 1932 by Julien Levy alongside those of Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans or Margaret Bourke-White (during the exhibition Photographs of New York by New York Photographers). Relatively unknown today, his works are nevertheless preserved in many American museums (Museum of the City of New York, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago) and in his time the photographer Adolf de Meyer collected the modernist views of Sherril Schell.