Portrait of a Couple
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 25.2 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert B. Menschel Fund
Accession Number
2000.83.1
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...