James Van Der Zee

Cousin Susan Porter
1915

A vintage black and white photograph of a woman seated in an ornate room. She is dressed in a lace-adorned dress with a high collar and has a decorative hat with flowers on her head. The woman is looking down at a document she is holding in her hands. Behind her, the walls are decorated with patterned wallpaper and framed landscape paintings. To her left, there is a potted plant on a stand with a lace doily.

A vintage black and white photograph of a woman seated in an ornate room. She is dressed in a lace-adorned dress with a high collar and has a decorative hat with flowers on her head. The woman is looking down at a document she is holding in her hands. Behind her, the walls are decorated with patterned wallpaper and framed landscape paintings. To her left, there is a potted plant on a stand with a lace doily.

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Date
1915

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16in. (25.2 × 20.2 cm) Image: 7 1/2 × 6 5/16in. (19.1 × 16 cm)

Accession number
2001.40

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of an anonymous donor

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/13531

Exhibitions

Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960

Apr 28, 2017–June 2, 2019

James Van Der Zee
8 works in the collection

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