Portrait Photograph of Canada Lee as Bigger Thomas, in the 1941 Orson Welles' stage adaptation of NATIVE SON

by Canada Lee, Carl Van Vechten

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Gelatin silver print. Large bust portrait of Lee in shirt and jacket, fist clenched. 1 vols. 35 x 27.5 cm. 13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches . Docketed on rear in pencil, with the date of the session, name of the sitter, Van Vechten's id number of the negative xviii t.14 , and note to printer for reduction. Reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAITS 1978 . Item #220931 Lee was acclaimed for his portrayal of Bigger Thomas in Orson Welles' 1941 stage adaptation

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