Artist Monograph

George Platt Lynes, American

American, 1907–1955

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Production by Decade

1900s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	55	82.1%
Medium (30–100 cm)	12	17.9%

Range: 16.5 cm → 35.6 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1943	2
1964	1
1969	2
1973	22
1976	3
1979	16
1982	1
1984	1
1994	6
2001	1
2019	12

Currently On View

"MoMA, Floor 4, 409" — 1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 67 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
(Female Portrait; Fly On Right Hand) Photograph Acc. 241.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	7 1/16 × 9 1/8" (19.0 × 24.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
(Seated Female Nude Torso) Photograph Acc. 237.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	6 9/16 × 4 9/16" (16.7 × 11.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
(Seated Female Nude, Back to Camera) Photograph Acc. 236.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	irregular 9 3/8 × 8 5/8" (23.8 × 21.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
(Standing Male Nude Torso) Photograph Acc. 238.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	6 1/2 × 4 1/4" (16.5 × 11.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
(Window) Photograph Acc. 242.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	6 9/16 × 4 5/8" (16.6 × 11.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
(Woman in Still-Life of Dishes, Meat and Rope) Photograph Acc. 245.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	7 3/8 × 9" (18.8 × 22.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Aldous Huxley Photograph Acc. 678.1976	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	9 3/16 × 7 1/2" (23.4 × 19.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Monroe Wheeler
Bertrand Russell Photograph Acc. 231.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	9 11/16 × 7 11/16" (24.5 × 19.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Evelyn Waugh Photograph Acc. 232.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	16 × 8" (25.3 × 20.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Igor Youskevitch Photograph Acc. 233.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	12 1/2 × 10 3/8" (31.9 × 26.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Lady in Black Photograph Acc. 1233.1969	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	13 × 10 1/4" (33.0 × 26.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Mrs. Harrison Williams Photograph Acc. 225.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	9 1/4 × 7 11/16" (23.5 × 19.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Portrait of Marsden Hartley Photograph Acc. 228.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	13 3/8 × 10 9/16" (34.0 × 26.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
SAUL STEINBERG Photograph Acc. 679.1976	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	8 3/4 × 7 3/8" (22.3 × 18.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Monroe Wheeler
SIC TRANSIT (CEMETARY) Photograph Acc. 243.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	6 1/2 × 4 1/2" (16.5 × 11.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
T.S. ELIOT Photograph Acc. 680.1976	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	7 11/16 × 7 3/16" (19.5 × 18.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Monroe Wheeler
Untitled (Reclining Nude) Photograph Acc. 1156.1979	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	8 × 9 7/8" (20.0 × 25.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
W. H. Auden Photograph Acc. 230.1973	n.d.	Gelatin silver print	9 × 7 1/4" (22.8 × 18.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Death of Caesar Photograph Acc. 179.1964	1900-42	Gelatin silver print	13 × 10 1/2" (33 × 26.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
André Gide Photograph Acc. 699.1943	1922-43	Gelatin silver print	13 1/8 × 10 1/8" (33.3 × 25.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Russell Lynes Photograph Acc. 474.1984	1931-32	Gelatin silver print	8 15/16 × 7 1/2" (22.8 × 19 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Untitled (the Ritter brothers) Photograph Acc. 239.1973	c. 1934	Gelatin silver print	8 15/16 × 6" (22.8 × 15.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Untitled (the Ritter brothers) Photograph Acc. 240.1973	c. 1934	Gelatin silver print	7 1/2 × 9 1/2" (19.0 × 24.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Henri Cartier-Bresson Photograph Acc. 41.1994	1935	Gelatin silver print	9 1/8 × 7 9/16" (23.2 × 19.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Henri Cartier-Bresson Photograph Acc. 1774.2001	1935	Gelatin silver print	9 × 7 1/4" (22.8 × 18.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Abbott-Levy Collection funds, by exchange
Marc Chagall Photograph Acc. 700.1943	c. 1935	Gelatin silver print	13 × 10" (33 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Untitled Photograph Acc. 46.2019	c. 1935-40	Gelatin silver print	8 3/4 × 6 3/4" (22.2 × 17.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Untitled Photograph Acc. 1165.1979	c. 1935–40	Gelatin silver print	10 × 8" (25.3 × 20.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Jean Cocteau Photograph Acc. 229.1973	1936	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 5/8" (24.1 × 19.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Untitled Photograph Acc. 1166.1979	January 31, 1936	Gelatin silver print	9 3/8 × 7" (24.0 × 17.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Lew Christensen in "Apollon Musagète" Photograph Acc. 47.2019	June 24, 1937	Gelatin silver print	13 1/4 × 11 3/4" (33.7 × 29.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Lew Christensen in "Apollon Musagète" Photograph Acc. 48.2019	1937	Gelatin silver print	9 7/8 × 8" (25.1 × 20.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles and Lehman Engel Photograph Acc. 1232.1969	1937	Gelatin silver print	10 1/2 × 13" (26.7 × 33.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Self-Analysis Photograph Acc. 1169.1979	c. 1937	Gelatin silver print	9 × 7 3/8" (23.0 × 18.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Untitled Photograph Acc. 49.2019	c. 1937	Gelatin silver print	9 3/8 × 7 1/2" (23.8 × 19.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Untitled (Nude in Torn T-Shirt) Photograph Acc. 1168.1979	November 10, 1937	Gelatin silver print	9 1/8 × 7 7/16" (23.2 × 18.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Untitled (Paul Cadmus and Jared French) Photograph Acc. 1167.1979	November 10, 1937	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 5/8" (24.0 × 19.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Diana Photograph Acc. 50.2019	c. 1938	Gelatin silver print with gouache, ink, and airbrushed paint	13 1/4 × 10 1/8" (33.7 × 25.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Yves Tanguy Photograph Acc. 227.1973	1938	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 1/2" (24.1 × 19.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Bill Bailey Photograph Acc. 51.2019	1939	Gelatin silver print	9 3/16 × 7 5/8" (23.3 × 19.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Untitled (George Tichenor) Photograph Acc. 1164.1979	c. 1939	Gelatin silver print	7 3/8 × 9 1/2" (18.8 × 24.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Katherine Anne Porter (with portraits of Monroe Wheeler) Photograph Acc. 52.2019	c. 1940	Gelatin silver print	14 × 11 5/16" (35.6 × 28.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Monroe Wheeler Photograph Acc. 311.1982	c. 1940	Gelatin silver print	8 15/16 × 7 15/16" (22.8 × 19.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Robert M. Frash
Untitled (Robert McVoy) Photograph Acc. 53.2019	c. 1940-41	Gelatin silver print	9 1/8 × 7 3/8" (23.2 × 18.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Glenway Wescott Photograph Acc. 54.2019	c. 1941	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 1/2" (24.1 × 19.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Paul Cadmus Photograph Acc. 42.1994	c. 1941	Gelatin silver print	9 1/4 × 7 1/2" (23.5 × 19 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Untitled (Tex Smutney and Buddy Stanley) Photograph Acc. 1162.1979	1941	Gelatin silver print	7 5/8 × 9 5/8" (19.2 × 24.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Notre Dame La Grande, Poitiers Photograph Acc. 244.1973	1942-45	Gelatin silver print	8 × 7 1/2" (20.3 × 19.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Untitled Photograph Acc. 235.1973	c. 1942	Gelatin silver print	7 5/16 × 9 3/8" (18.5 × 23.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Lincoln Kirstein Photograph Acc. 55.2019	c. 1943	Gelatin silver print	10 × 8" (25.4 × 20.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Joan Fontaine Photograph Acc. 226.1973	c. 1945	Gelatin silver print	9 3/8 × 7 3/4" (23.8 × 19.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Aldous Huxley Photograph Acc. 38.1994	1946	Gelatin silver print	9 5/8 × 7 11/16" (24.5 × 19.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Untitled (Nude Beside Window) Photograph Acc. 1160.1979	1947	Gelatin silver print	9 3/16 × 7 1/2" (23.4 × 19.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Untitled (Nude In Front of Window) Photograph Acc. 1161.1979	1947	Gelatin silver print	9 1/4 × 7 1/2" (23.5 × 19.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
George Tooker Photograph Acc. 39.1994	1948	Gelatin silver print	9 5/8 × 7 11/16" (24.5 × 19.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
George Tooker Photograph Acc. 40.1994	1948	Gelatin silver print	9 9/16 × 7 11/16" (24.3 × 19.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Lincoln Kirstein Photograph Acc. 56.2019	c. 1948	Gelatin silver print	9 7/8 × 8" (25.1 × 20.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Lincoln Kirstein Photograph Acc. 224.1973	c. 1948	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 3/4" (24.2 × 19.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Tanaquil Le Clercq in "Metamorphoses" Photograph Acc. 234.1973	c. 1950-51	Gelatin silver print	13 5/16 × 10 6/8" (34.5 × 27.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Untitled (Herbert Bliss) Photograph Acc. 1163.1979	March 18, 1950	Gelatin silver print	9 1/4 × 7 1/2" (23.5 × 19.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
W. H. Auden Photograph Acc. 43.1994	c. 1950	Gelatin silver print	9 5/8 × 7 11/16" (24.5 × 19.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Francisco Moncion in "La Gloire" Photograph Acc. 57.2019	March 10, 1952	Gelatin silver print	13 7/8 × 11" (35.2 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Russell Lynes
Untitled Photograph Acc. 1159.1979	July 8, 1952	Gelatin silver print	9 1/4 × 7 1/2" (23.4 × 19.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Untitled (John Leapheart and Robert [Buddy] X. McCarthy) Photograph Acc. 1158.1979	1952	Gelatin silver print	8 1/2 × 7 1/2" (21.6 × 19.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Untitled (self-portrait) Photograph Acc. 1170.1979	c. 1952	Gelatin silver print	9 7/8 × 8" (25.1 × 20.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
The Tense Hand Photograph Acc. 1171.1979	October 19, 1954	Gelatin silver print	7 1/4 × 8 3/4" (18.4 × 22.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift
Untitled (Nude with Pavel Tchelitchew's Golden Leaf) Photograph Acc. 1157.1979	January 30, 1955	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 5/8" (24.3 × 19.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Anonymous gift