1938 Francois Kollar Photograph of the Bedroom of Daisy Fellowes

This photograph by George Platt Lynes is unusual for having three exposures of the Russian princess Natalie Paley, the celebrated beauty, and the wife...

Remie Lohse was born in Puerto Rico, studied painting in Denmark, and settled in New York in 1928, where he became a professional photographer. In the 1930s he was a freelancer who specialized in advertising and magazine features, and shot covers for Vogue. If he often focused on the high life, seen in this couple stepping out on the town, he also shot humble subjects. He was more interested in his art than a particular milieu, and many of his photographs are little masterpieces. His contemporary Gilbert Seldes, the noted Vanity Fair media critic and “public intellectual” (not to mention father of actress Marian Seldes), featured Lohse in his 1934 book 'This is New York, The First Modern Photographic Book of New York.' In 1939 Lohse came out with his own book titled 'The Miniature Camera in Professional Hands.' Our photograph was one of three shot by Lohse for a 1934 Vogue article titled “High Spots and Low Music." If the photograph (image size 4 1/4" x 6") show a couple making the nocturnal rounds of Manhattan restaurants, bars, and jazz clubs, the story itself also covers the daytime meeting places of the ladies who lunch. The twist is that Lohse’s model was the author herself, Elena Mumm Thornton, and her husband James Worth...

This painted-and-gilded fire screen in the Louis XVI style was made by Francois Linke (1855 - 1946), the greatest maker of furniture in Belle Epoque Paris...

This iconic woodblock print by Chikanobu Toyohara (1838-1912), titled 'A Mirror of Japanese Nobility,' depicts Emperor Meiji, his consort, and the heir t...

According to Japanese folklore the fox, or kitsune, can assume human form to protect and trick humble country folk. Dating to the 18th century, this fox protects its own pup. Carved ...

This faceted, geometric sculpture by the contemporary New York artist John Torreano dates to the mid-1980s.

Photograph executed and printed 1971, 1/1. This photograph is framed. Sir Roy Colin Strong is an English art historian and former director of the National Portrait Gallery and the V...

Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) Statue with Book, Paris 1938 Gelatin silver print, printed later. Image: 7.5 x 8.25 in / 19 x 22 cm. Mat: 11 x 14 in / 28 x 36 cm....

Original French photographic black and white production still for the classic 1965 Musical starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer. The film received five Academy Awards, includi...

Early twentieth century photo by Edwin Levick of the Lawley Built Yacht “Caritas”. Caritas was a 112 foot private power yacht constructed at George Lawley and Son, Neponset Mass. Hom...

Original black and white studio photographic production still from The Producers 1967 directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. This...

A framed Gelatin photograph of the crew of HMS Dido on deck, circa 1880.