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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt

Artist Alfred Cheney Johnston (American, 1885-1971)
CultureAmerican
Date1920s
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm)
Overall, Support: 14 3/16 × 10 1/4 in. (36 × 26 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 1/16 × 16 in. (51 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Charles Isaacs
Object number93.36.4
Not on view
DescriptionThis gelatin silver print is a three-quarter length portrait of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who is wearing a plaid hat and fur coat.

Exhibition History"Venus and Adonis: Aspects of the Figurative Ideal in 19th- and 20th-Century Art," The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, July 13 - November 3, 1996 Published ReferencesCharles Isaacs, ALFRED CHENEY JOHNSTON: WOMEN OF TALENT AND BEAUTY (1987), P. 30.