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You Will Find Him at the Elk's Club

Black-and-white photograph of a dark-skinned woman wearing a headwrap and a fancy dress. She peers into a glass orb with an elk etched on it. Text at the bottom of the photograph reads “You will find him at the Elk’s Club."

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  • Black-and-white photograph of a dark-skinned woman wearing a headwrap and a fancy dress. She peers into a glass orb with an elk etched on it. Text at the bottom of the photograph reads “You will find him at the Elk’s Club."

Date:

c. 1927

Artist:

James Van Der Zee
American, 1886–1983

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

James VanDerZee

Title

You Will Find Him at the Elk's 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.

1922–1932

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Inscriptions

Printed/on negative recto, lower left, in white: "PHOTO BY VANDERZEE / 109 W 136"; recto, lower center, in white: "YOU WILL FIND HIM AT THE ELK'S CLUB." recto, lower right, in white: "SOLD ONLY BY / FLORENC ART CO / 139 W 135"; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: "TITLE: YOU WILL FIND HIM..., c. 1927 / PHOTOGRAPHER: JAMESVANDER ZEE / COPYRIGHT RETAINED / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / VINTAGE PRINT / CERTIFIED: Donna Mussenden VDZ"; verso, center, in graphite: "2000"; verso, lower center, upside-down, in graphite: "2000 / as is / OK / Florence Ricks"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "PF 9928"

Dimensions

Image: 24 × 19 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

2000.332

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