Item #220903 Portrait Photograph of James Earl Jones. James Earl Jones, Carl Van Vechten.

Portrait Photograph of James Earl Jones.

New York: May 29, 1961.

Price: $1,500.00


About the item

Gelatin silver print. Half-length portrait of the actor seated in Van Vechten's studio. 1 vols. 34.5 x 24 cm. (13-1/2 x 9 inches). Docketed on rear with date of session, subject of the photo, and Van Vechten's id number ("ix.gg.5'); and with indications to printer for reduction. Reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAITS (1978).

Item #220903

Jones made an impression in 1961 in the off-Broadway production of Genet's play The Blacks.