Little John
1934
Artist, American, 1886 - 1983

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17 × 11.8 cm (6 11/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
sheet: 17.9 × 12.8 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2019.127.14
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Copyright
© James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
James Van Der Zee, New York; Donna Van Der Zee, New York; NGA purchase (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York), 2019.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower left in negative: VANDERZEE / N.Y.C .[underlined] / 1934; on verso, by Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee, top left in graphite: 95; upper right: TITLE: LITTLE JOHN, c1935 / BY: JAMES VAN DER ZEE / VINTAGE PRINT; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: PF15140; bottom right: DVDZ-75