Daddy Grace at the Altar with Choir

Photography and Media

1938

James Van Der Zee
American, 1886–1983

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: James VanDerZee
Title: Daddy Grace at the Altar with Choir
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1938
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Printed/no negative, center right, backwards, in white: "EASTMAN SAF [torn paper] DAK 1?8"; verso unmarked
Dimensions: Image: 19.3 × 24.5 cm (7 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.); Paper: 20.3 × 25.3 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: The Sandor Family Collection in honor of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Reference Number: 1994.898

Jankauskas, Jennifer. “Portfolio.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), pp. 196-97, no. 7.
Smith, Cherise. “Fragmented Documents Works by Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and Willie Robert Middlebrook at The Art Institute of Chicago.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24,2 (1999), p. 248.
“African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago.” edited by Susan F. Rossen, 60. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago in association with the University of Washington Press, 1999

Art Institute of Chicago, “After the Crash: Picturing the United States 1930-1943,” October 21, 2000–January 28, 2001. (Mark Pascal and Kristin Nagel Merrill)(Gallery 1)

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