Research Catalog

Title

Charleston Wilson portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

[194-?]-[195-?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Dummett.
• Hawkins, Herbert.

Description

• <3> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm.
• <1> photographic print : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Collection consists of a studio portrait of painter and sketch artist Charleston Wilson (n.d.); views of Wilson sketching portraits at two separate outdoor art shows near Washington Square Park, New York City (ca. 1950); and a view of Wilson, with a group of unidentified women, viewing an exhibition of his paintings (n.d.).

Subjects

• Illustrators > New York (State) > New York
• African American artists
• Portrait photographs > 1940-1959
• Gelatin silver prints > 1940-1959
• African American painters
• Group portraits > 1940-1959
• Wilson, Charleston

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1940-1959.
• Group portraits – 1940-1959.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1940-1959.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• One photograph has photographer's handstamp on verso; all photographs bear handwritten notations; most items have cropping marks; one photograph has airbrush marks.
• Collection contains work by Dummett and Herbert Hawkins.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Wilson, Charleston

OCLC

NYPG99-F913

Title

Charleston Wilson portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

[194-?]-[195-?]

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

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Added Author

Dummett. Photographer

Hawkins, Herbert. Photographer

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Wilson, Charleston