Blumstein's Sales Girls
1930
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: 17.78 × 23.81 cm (7 × 9 3/8 in.)
sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2021.33.3
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Copyright
© James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The Estate of James Van Der Zee, New York; Donna Van Der Zee, New York; NGA purchase, 2021.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right in negative, perpendicular: NYC / VANDERZEE / 1930; on verso, by Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee, top right in graphite: TITLE: BLUMSTEIN’S SALES GIRLS, 1930; / PHOTOGRAPHER: JAMES VAN DER ZEE / COPYRIGHT © DONNA VAN DER ZEE / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / VINTAGE PRINT / CERTIFIED: Donna Mussenden VDZ / November 2003 / REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION; lower center stamped in purple ink inverted: G.G.G. Photo Studio / 2065-7th Ave., NEW YORK; by unknown hand, right edge, centered, perpendicular in graphite: I-P-1461-0; bottom right: Z-80-1-1836