Skip to main content
Wedding Day, Harlem, 1926

James Van Der Zee and Graphics International, Ltd., in cooperation with the Van DerZee Institute, New York

Wedding Day, Harlem, 1926

1925-1973

Scroll
Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Mount: 381 x 318 mm. (15 x 12 1/2 in.) Image/Sheet: 238 x 175 mm. (9 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Saidie A. May Bequest Fund
Object Number 1975.22.12
From the colophon: "This multiple-image portrait reflects the Romanticism with which Mr. Van Der Zee approched his subjects."
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1975; Graphics International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions from the Museum's Photograph Collection," 14 June - 6 August, 1978; Traveling 1 September - 3 October, 1978.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Harlem Views: Photographs by Aaron Siskind and James van der Zee," 2 December, 1986 - 1 March, 1987.

James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America," June 7, 2006 - December 3, 2006.

Inscribed: RECTO: lower left in negative (written vertically): "VANDERZEE / NYC"; on mount, lower left in graphite: "XII 28/75"; on mount, lower right in graphite: "J. Van DerZee, " VERSO: On mount, at lower right, in graphite:"Wedding Day, Harlem, 1926"

Explore the Collection Further

James Van Der Zee
Fashion
1925
George Cruikshank
Xit, Now Sir Narcissus Le Grand, Entertaining His Friends on His Wedding Day
1839
James Van Der Zee
Mrs. James Van Der Zee
1917
James Van Der Zee
Untitled
1946
Henri Matisse and Henri Matisse, Presentation Maquette, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé
Study for "What silk with balm from advancing days" (refused etching)
20th century
James Van Der Zee and Graphics International, Ltd., in cooperation with the Van DerZee Institute, New York
Daddy Grace, Harlem, 1938
1937–1973
Alphonse Adolphe Gery-Bichard and Luc Olivier Merson
The Wedding
19th century
James Van Der Zee and Graphics International, Ltd., in cooperation with the Van DerZee Institute, New York
The Heiress, Harlem, 1938
1937–1973
James Van Der Zee and Graphics International, Ltd., in cooperation with the Van DerZee Institute, New York
Couple, Harlem, 1932
1931–1973
Wes Mills
3. wednesday around 2:45
1993