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The Last Good-bye

Artist James Augustus Joseph Van Der Zee (American, 1886 - 1983)
Copy Right Holder James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date1923
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionssheet: 12 x 9 15/16 in. (30.5 x 25.2 cm)
image: 10 1/16 x 7 15/16 in. (25.6 x 20.2 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PHOTO
Credit LineMuseum purchase, Karl E. Weston Memorial Fund
Terms
  • interior
  • soldier
  • African-American
  • flag
  • dog
Object number89.8
Edition10/250
Collections
Inscribedl.c. printed in image, vertically: VANDERZEE/NYC/1923
On View
Not on view
Exhibitions
© Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee
Wrecked Car
James Augustus Joseph Van Der Zee
1949
© Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee
Mrs. Turner, Lenox, Mass. (from "Eighteen Photographs")
James Augustus Joseph Van Der Zee
negative 1905; printed 1974
© Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee
Whittier Preparatory School, Phoebus, VA (from "Eighteen Photographs")
James Augustus Joseph Van Der Zee
negative 1907; printed 1974
© Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee
The Van Der Zee Men, Lenox, Mass. (from "Eighteen Photographs")
James Augustus Joseph Van Der Zee
negative 1908; printed 1974