Chief Lee | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: P1995.51
People: James Augustus Joseph Van Der Zee, American (Lenox, Massachusetts 1886 - 1983 Washington, DC)
Title: Chief Lee
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph
Date: 1924
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/281171

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 23.2 x 17.7 cm (9 1/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 x 20.4 cm (10 x 8 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: James Van Der Zee, 1924
inscription: verso, center, graphite: 1924 James Van Der Zee Chief Lee
inscription: negative: James Van Der Zee 1924

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: George A. Violin, Dover, MA, purchased from G.W. Einstein Co., Inc., NY, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. George A. Violin
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: P1995.51
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/29/2000 - 07/23/2000

Verification Level

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