George Platt Lynes photographs
name: label: Creator
content: Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955
label: Names
content: Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987 -- Photographs
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content: Berman, Eugene, 1899-1972 -- Photographs
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content: Biddle, George, 1885-1973 -- Photographs
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content: Billings, Henry, 1901- -- Photographs
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content: Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980 -- Photographs
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content: Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999 -- Photographs
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content: Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985 -- Photographs
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content: Chaliapin, Boris, 1904- -- Photographs
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content: Dunoyer de Segonzac, André, 1884-1974 -- Photographs
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content: French, Jared, 1905-1988 -- Photographs
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content: Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943 -- Photographs
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content: Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967 -- Photographs
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content: Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886- -- Photographs
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content: Lachaise, Gaston, 1882-1935 -- Photographs
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content: Lurçat, Jean, 1892-1966 -- Photographs
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content: Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955 -- Art collections -- Photographs
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content: Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988 -- Photographs
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content: Perlin, Bernard, 1918- -- Photographs
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content: Pène Du Bois, Guy, 1884-1958 -- Photographs
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content: Roy, Pierre -- Photographs
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content: Saint-Gaudens, Homer, b. 1880 -- Photographs
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content: Tanguy, Yves, 1900-1955 -- Photographs
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content: Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957 -- Photographs
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content: Tooker, George, 1920-2011 -- Photographs
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content: Zadkine, Ossip -- Photographs
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content: Zorach, William, 1887-1966 -- Photographs
topic: label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Photography, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Portrait photography
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reel 57 lent for microfilming 1971 by Russell Lynes, brother of George Platt Lynes; material on reels 153 & 2077 donated 1967-1971 by Russell Lynes.
creator: label: Creator
content: Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) was a photographer from New York, N.Y. Best known for his portraits of Hollywood stars, ballet dancers, writers, and male nudes.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.4 Linear Feet ((microfilmed on 3 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1926-1950
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lynegeor
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 153 and 2077 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Reel 57 is available for use only at the Archives of American Art offices.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel 57: Original returned to Russell Lynes after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs of artists and art works taken by Lynes.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 57: A photograph album, 1926-1942, containing photos of paintings and drawings in Lynes's collection. Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Marsden Hartley, Paul Klee, Pierre Roy, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Yves Tanguy are represented.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 153: Photographs of artists, 1932-1950, and others (printed posthumously) including: Peggy Bacon, Eugene Berman, George Biddle, Henry Billings, Alexander Brook, Paul Cadmus, Marc Chagall, Boris Chaliapin, A. Dunoyer De Segonzac, Guy Pène du Bois, Jared French, Edward Hopper, Oskar Kokoschka, Gaston Lachaise, Jean Lurcat, Isamu Noguchi, Bernard Perlin, Pierre Roy, Homer St. Gaudens, Yves Tanguy, Pavel Tchelitchew, George Tooker, Ossip Zadkine, and William Zorach. Also included is a group photograph (numerous shots in varying poses) of a group of artists including Matta, Ossip, Zadkine, Yves Tanguu, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, André Breton, Piet Mondrian, André Masson, Amédée Ozenfant, Jacques Lipcitz, Pavel Tchelitchev, Kurt Seligman and Eugene Berman taken on the occasion of the Exhibition Artists in Exile at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1942.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2077: Fifteen photographs of Marsden Hartley, February 4, 1943, and printed posthumously.