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Elks

Black-and-white photograph of fourteen African American men in two rows in a small wallpapered room. All wear silk shirts, cummerbunds, and Fez hats. One man, back row center wears a tuxedo and a Fez hat.

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  • Black-and-white photograph of fourteen African American men in two rows in a small wallpapered room. All wear silk shirts, cummerbunds, and Fez hats. One man, back row center wears a tuxedo and a Fez hat.

Date:

c. 1935

Artist:

James Van Der Zee
American, 1886–1983

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

James VanDerZee

Title

Elks

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.

1930–1939

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Inscriptions

Faintly printed/on negative recto, lower left, in white: "NYC VANDERZEE"; inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "PF12100"; verso, upper center, in graphite: "TITLE: ELKS, ND / PHOTOGRAPHER: JAMES VAN DER ZEE / VINTAGE PRINT / UNPUBLISHED / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / CERTIFIED: Donna Mussenden VDZ 3/93"; stamped verso, center, in black ink: "G. G. G. PHOTO STUDIO / 212[?] [illegible] AVE., N.Y. 27[?] N.Y."; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "CB63"

Dimensions

Image: 17.1 × 23.5 cm (6 3/4 × 9 5/16 in.); Paper: 19.4 × 25.2 cm (7 11/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

2000.330

Extended information about this artwork

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