James Van Der Zee: Eighteen Photographs
James Van Der Zee
1905–1939, printed 1974
Medium
portfolio of 18 gelatin silver prints
Dimensions
overall: 40.7 × 33.6 × 7 cm (16 × 13 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund
Accession Number
2021.22.1.1-18
About the Artist
James Van Der Zee
James Augustus Van Der Zee (1886–1983) was born on June 29 in Lenox, Massachusetts, into a family where he quickly displayed talents in music, mastering the violin and piano while aspiring to a professional career as a violinist. Self-taught in photography from age fourteen, he acquired his first camera around 1900 and documented his family and small-town New England community, providing one of th...