(PHOTOGRAPHY) James Van Der Zee photographer Portrait of Ett

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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) James Van Der Zee, photographer. Portrait of Etta Moten Barnett. Photograph, 14 x 11 inches, signed and dated in the negative, also signed in pencil on verso, with pencil copyright notice in a different hand; minimal wear, lightly curled. No place, 1982

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A very late work by the famed photographer James Van Der Zee (1886-1983), who was about 96 years old when he signed this portrait in a shaky hand. The sitter Etta Moten Barnett (1901-2004) had been a star actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s and starred in a very successful run of "Porgy and Bess" in 1942, then went on to become an important civic leader in Chicago.