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Monte Carlo Sporting Club

Black-and-white photograph of formally dressed light-skinned black men and women posed indoors in two rows around a banner that reads “Monte Carlo Sporting Club Org 1934.”

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  • Black-and-white photograph of formally dressed light-skinned black men and women posed indoors in two rows around a banner that reads “Monte Carlo Sporting Club Org 1934.”

Date:

1934

Artist:

James Van Der Zee
American, 1886–1983

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

James VanDerZee

Title

Monte Carlo Sporting Club

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.

Made 1934

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Inscriptions

Printed/on negative recto, lower right, in white: "VANDERZEE NYC / 1934"; inscribed verso, upper RIGHT, in graphite: "TITLE: MONTE CARLO SPORTING CLUB, 1934 / PHOTOGRAPHER: JAMES VAN DER ZEE / REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING / FROM: THE VAN DER ZEE ESTATE / COPYRIGHTED PHOTOGRAPH, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / D.[?] Van Der Zee"; stamped, verso, center, sideways, in black ink: "G. G. G. PHOTO STUDIO, Inc. / 2065-7th AVE., N.Y.C."; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "PF 9861"

Dimensions

Image: 19.1 × 24.1 cm (7 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 1/16 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Anstiss and Ronald Krueck in memory of her mother, Florence Pierson Hammond

Reference Number

2000.329

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