RARE ORIGINAL PUBLICITY PHOTO OF RENOWNED AMERICAN VIOLINIST AND COMPOSER ALBERT SPALDING.

- Black-and-white, approximately 10 inch high by 8 inch wide original publicity photo by "G. Maillard Kesslere B.P." whose. copyright line is printed at bottom right. Tipped onto the bottom edge of the photograph is a 2-inch strip of paper on which the credits are typed. The top right corner of the photo is chipped & there is a small stain on the left side, not affecting the image. Very good. A head-and shoulders portrait of Albert Spalding wearing a white shirt and a spotted bow tie, photographed against a plain white background.Albert Spalding [1888-1953] was an internationally recognized violinist and composer. He studied the violin privately in New York City and Florence and at conservatories in Paris and Bologna, the latter graduating him with honors at the age of 14. He retired from the concert stage in 1950 and thereafter taught master classes at Boston University and, in the summers, at Florida State University. The credit slip attached to the photograph lists him as "Albert Spaulding [sic] who upholds America's proud right to claim the production of a violinist of indisputably first rank".The photographer George Maillard Kesslere [1894-1979] studied art at Syracuse University. On graduating he established a portrait studio in Syracuse, N.Y. where he practiced both photography and painting. In 1921 he moved his studio to New York where he won fame for the artistic qualities of his theatrical and fashion photography and for his paintings and pastels of diaphonously draped nude dancers. His portraiture won him recognition by the British Royal Academy of Photography. The "B.P. "which he later attached to his signature referred to this honor.…