School Children, NYC

1941

Not on view

During the 1920s and 1930s, VanDerZee enjoyed a reputation as Harlem's preeminent portrait photographer, catering to everyone from proud parents, shopkeepers, and newlyweds to such luminaries as Marcus Garvey, Bill Robinson, and Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. VanDerZee's career spanned more than seventy years, but his work first achieved widespread recognition only in 1969, when it was included in The Met's controversial exhibition, "Harlem on My Mind." He is now recognized as one of this country’s most distinctive photographic portraitists and an important chronicler the culture of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Title: School Children, NYC
Artist: James Van Der Zee (American, Lenox, Massachusetts 1886–1983 Washington, D.C.)
Date: 1941
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 7 15/16 in. × 10 in. (20.2 × 25.4 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Funds from various donors, 2018
Object Number: 2018.92
Rights and Reproduction: © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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