Brother William of the Shaker Settlement, Mount Lebanon, New York
about 1925–1927
- Medium
- Platinum print
- Dimensions
- 20.5 × 15.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-878551
In the mid-1920s Doris Ulmann began in earnest what would be a lifelong project—photographing American "types." Her first trips out of New York City for this purpose resulted in portraits of Dunkards, Shakers, and Mennonites living in rural parts of Virginia, New York, and Pennsylvania. (See other images from the Shaker settlement: [87.XM.89.62](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/62346/doris-ulmann-sister-adelaide-shaker-settlement-mt-lebanon-new-york-american-1927/) and [87.XM.89.63](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/62347/doris-ulmann-sister-sarah-shaker-settlement-mt-lebanon-new-york-american-1927/)). Elder William Anderson, who would die at the age of eighty-nine in 1930, was a prominent member of the much-diminished Shaker sect residing at the site of the original eighteenth-century settlement near New Lebanon, New York. According to an article published in a local paper on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday, Anderson was raised in New York City but came to the Mount Lebanon colony seeking "new adventures." His responsibilities there eventually included teaching, farming, surveying, bookkeeping, and, for forty years, overseeing the chairmaking bus…
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1925–1927 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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