Untitled (Garveyite Women's Brigade)

Untitled (Garveyite Women's Brigade)

James VanDerZee

Untitled (Garveyite Women's Brigade)

1924

A gelatin silver print by James Van Der Zee (1886–1983) depicting a group of uniformed women from the Universal Negro Improvement Association's auxiliary — the Black Cross Nurses — posed in his Harlem studio in the 1920s. A rare early visual record of Black women's mass organising in the United States, it belongs to the Art Institute of Chicago's Van Der Zee holdings.

Exhibition Venue

Untitled (Garveyite Women's Brigade) — James VanDerZee | Museum Map