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Women's Club

1927

James Van Der Zee

(American, 1886–1983)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 19.1 x 24.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Links, Cleveland Chapter 1975.85
Copyright
© Donna Mussenden VanDerZee
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Harlem’s preeminent portrait photographer James Van Der Zee portrayed people as they wish to be remembered. Mrs. Edith Milburn, possibly the sitter second from the left, commissioned this formal group portrait, set in an elegant home on West 138th Street in Harlem.
A horizontally oriented black-and-white photograph depicts four women with medium-light skin tones wearing dresses and beads or pearls in a house interior. On the right, one sits facing and looking to our left, another standing behind looking the same direction. The third sits in the center, facing us. On the left, the fourth woman stands facing our right, one hand on the back of a chair and leaning on a cabinet in front of a window.

Women's Club

1927

James Van Der Zee

(American, 1886–1983)
America

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