Altar Boy

c. 1930

James Van Der Zee

Artist, American, 1886 - 1983

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.3 × 19.2 cm (9 9/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.127.8

  • Copyright

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

More About this Artwork

Scholarly Article:  James Van Der Zee’s Portrait Photographs

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

Bibliography

1993

  • Van Der Zee, Photographer, 1886-1983. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 1993: 146.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower left in negative: VANDERZEE / N.Y.C [underlined]; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: #5227; bottom center: PF126399-111; bottom right: 1-P-60-0

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