Anatomical Painting

Installation view of Nick Mauss: Transmissions (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 16–May 14, 2018). Left to right: Carl Van Vechten, Al Bledger of the Von Grona (American) Negro Ballet, 1938; Carl Van Vechten, Al Bledger of the Von Grona (American) Negro Ballet, 1938; Carl Van Vechten, Carl Van Vechten slideshow, 1940–64; New York City Ballet souvenir program from the company’s second European Tour through Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, and Germany, 1952; Charles Henri Ford, 'Ballet for Tamara Toumanova", in View (2nd series, no. 4, January 1943, "AMERICANA FANTASTICA"), 1943; Ballet Theatre program for the 1951-52 Season, 1951; Ruth Page photographed by Maurice Seymore in costume designed by Pawel Tchelitchew for Page's 'Variations on Euclid', in the publication Ruth Page and Harald Kreutzberg, with poem and introduction by Mark Turbyfill, c. 1936; George Platt Lynes, Dancer Jacques D’Amboise in a costume designed by Paul Cadmus for Filling Station, choreographed by Lew Christensen for Ballet Caravan, 1938; George Platt Lynes, Cabaret performer James Leslie Daniels, c. 1937; Pavel Tchelitchew, Anatomical Painting, 1946. Photograph by Ron Amstutz. Digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

From the exhibition Nick Mauss: Transmissions