Lady with Wide-Brimmed Straw Hat

1934

James Van Der Zee

Artist, American, 1886 - 1983

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 24.1 × 18.1 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.58.1

  • Copyright

    © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

More About this Artwork

Article:  James Van Der Zee’s Retouched Portraits

To present sitters in the best possible light and perfect his portrait photographs, 20th-century Harlem photographer Van Der Zee even drew jewelry onto his negatives.


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

James Van Der Zee, New York; Donna Van Der Zee, New York; (Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower left in negative: NYC [vertical] / VAN DER ZEE [vertical] / 1934; on verso, by Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee, top left in graphite: 712; upper center: TITLE: LADY WITH WIDE-BRIMMED / STRAW HAT, 1934 / PHOTOGRAPHER: JAMES VAN DER ZEE / VINTAGE PRINT / UNPUBLISHED/ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / CERTIFIED: D. Mussenden VDZ 5/93; center stamped in black ink: G.G.G. PHOTO STUDIO, / 2065-7th AVE., N.Y.C.; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: 280:1:1035; lower center: 1-P-1350-0; bottom center: PF84493-111


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