On the reverse is the stamp of "Peter A. Juley & Son - Photographers of Fine Arts - Since 1898 - 225 West 57th Street - New York City."

In 1940, Juley & Son, New York City’s oldest art photography studio, moves into offices in the B.F. Goodrich Company Building, at 225 West 57th Street. The Rodin Studios were across the street at 200 West 57th Street. And Steinway Hall was  one block east, at 111 West 57th Street. The Peter A. Juley & Son studio continued until Paul’s death in 1975.  At that time, the studio’s negatives were acquired by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art. Peter A. Juley & Son was the among the preeminent photographers of fine art and artists in NYC.

Photographic studio. Peter A. Juley (1862-1937) and Paul P. Juley (1890-1975) specialized in photographing works of art and taking portraits of artists, serving museums, galleries, art dealers, private collectors, corporations, conservators, and nearly every major American artist of the late 19th and 20th centuries.  Provenance: the Juley Collection consists of prints made from 127,000 original negatives that have been housed since 1975 in the photographic archive of the National Museum of American Art. These images represent the largest single photographic record of American art, of the works of more than 11,000 artists and 4,500 portraits of artists. While the originals generally date to 1896-1975, the years of the Juleys' activity, many images predate 1896, as other photographic firms left their negatives to Juley

Turn-of-the-century patrons included George Inness, Albert Pinkham Ryder, John La Farge, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Eakins. In the period preceding the 1913 Armory Show, the works of Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, and the avant-garde group associated with Alfred Stieglitz and the Gallery 291 were photographed. During the 1930s and 1940s, the work of regional artists Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood were recorded, and later the works of Abstract Expressionists Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell (450 items). Totals for other artists include: George Bellows (344), Paul Manship (329), John Singer Sargent (203), and Edward Hopper (122)

for reference, not for sale; the Lincoln Kirstein collection of portraits such: