Posing at the Beach

c. 1925

James Van Der Zee

Artist, American, 1886 - 1983

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 8.2 × 11.6 cm (3 1/4 × 4 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 8.6 × 12.8 cm (3 3/8 × 5 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.127.15

  • Copyright

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

More About this Artwork

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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: VANDERZEE / NYC [underlined]; on verso, upper center printed in black ink: POST CARD / CORRESPONDENCE HERE FOR ADDRESS ONLY; by unknown hand, center in black ink on applied label inverted: 1-P-112 [crossed out] 90-0; by Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee, across bottom in graphite: TITLE: POSING AT THE BEACH, c.1925 / PHOTOGRAPHER: JAMES VAN DER ZEE / VINTAGE PRINT / CERTIFIED: Donna Mussenden-VDR / COPYRIGHT © ALL RIGHTS RESERVED; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: PF15110JV

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