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Riding Habit

Sepia-toned photograph. A person with short, cropped hair wearing a fedora and formal riding gear stands in front of a brick wall, hands in their pockets, face cocked upwards and smiling. There is a small cutout photograph of a dog and a decorative metal gate with flowers in the background,

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  • Sepia-toned photograph. A person with short, cropped hair wearing a fedora and formal riding gear stands in front of a brick wall, hands in their pockets, face cocked upwards and smiling. There is a small cutout photograph of a dog and a decorative metal gate with flowers in the background,

Date:

1939

Artist:

James Van Der Zee
American, 1886–1983

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

James VanDerZee

Title

Riding Habit

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.

1939

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower right, in white pencil[?]: "NYC VANDERZEE / 1939"; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: "TITLE: RIDING HABIT, 1939 / PHOTOGRAPHER: JAMES VANDERZEE / COPYRIGHT RETAINED / VINTAGE PRINT / CERTIFIED: Donna Mussenden VDZ"; verso, lower left, in graphite: "PF 9927"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "Z[or 2]80 - 1.35A"

Dimensions

Image: 23.9 × 19 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Mount: 25.2 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

2000.331

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