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[George Gershwin, 1898-1937, half-length portrait, standing, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[George Gershwin, 1898-1937, half-length portrait, standing, facing left], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[George Gershwin, 1898-1937, half-length portrait, standing, facing left], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[George Gershwin, 1898-1937, half-length portrait, standing, facing left]

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George Gershwin appears here in a half-length portrait, shown standing and turned to the left, a pose that suits a composer who spent much of his public life at the piano or in front of an audience. The print comes from the Bain News Service, the Manhattan photo agency whose glass negatives and caption cards now form the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Gershwin, who moved from Tin Pan Alley songwriting to concert works such as Rhapsody in Blue and the opera Porgy and Bess, was a frequent subject for New York press photographers in the 1920s and 1930s. The card records no date, so the sitting is best placed within his active career rather than pinned to a specific year.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto by Bain News Service. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Videodisc frame 3A-42852; BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,177 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120029

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