Object Details
- Artist
- Carl Van Vechten, 17 Jun 1880 - 21 Dec 1964
- Sitter
- Anna May Wong, 3 Jan 1905 - 3 Feb 1961
- Exhibition Label
- Marlene Dietrich’s influence on other women cannot be underestimated. In this photograph, Anna May Wong, who co-starred with Dietrich in Shanghai Express (1932), wears a man’s tuxedo suit and top hat. The first person to do so in the public eye was Dietrich, who identified consistently and without apology as a bisexual woman. Dietrich had a palpable influence on Wong since 1930, when they celebrated with Leni Riefenstahl at the Reinmann Art School Ball.
- No podemos subestimar la influencia que ejerció Marlene Dietrich sobre otras mujeres. En esta foto, Anna May Wong, quien coprotagonizó con ella Shanghai Express (1932), lleva un esmoquin con sombrero de copa. La primera mujer que se atrevió a esto en público fue Dietrich, quien se identificaba con insistencia y sin reparos como bisexual. La influencia de Dietrich sobre Wong resulta palpable desde 1930, cuando ambas coincidieron con Leni Riefenstahl en el baile de la Academia de Arte Reinmann (foto abajo).
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1932
- Object number
- NPG.90.88
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Carl Van Vechten Trust
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/Sheet: 35.5 × 27.8 cm (14 × 10 15/16")
- Mat: 71.3 × 55.9 cm (28 1/16 × 22")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Costume\Jewelry\Ring
- Home Furnishings\Drinking vessel\Glass
- Costume\Headgear\Hat\Top hat
- Anna May Wong: Female
- Anna May Wong: Arts & Culture\Performing Arts\Film\Movie actor
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.90.88
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm46f0f2137-be3f-42e3-b748-49e247f0ffcc
