The Boss, 1932

  • Prentice H. Polk, American, 1898-1984

Gelatin silver print

  • Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 3/8 inches (24.1 × 18.7 cm) Image: 9 7/8 × 7 7/8 inches (25.1 × 20 cm)

Gift of Delano Willis

F1988.119

Signed in ink, lower right: P H Polk

1989-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lee, Key Jo. Perceptual Drift: Black Art and an Ethics of Looking. Exh. cat., The Cleveland Musem of Art. New Haven and London, 2022, pp. 76-77, p. 77 (fig. 44).

Prentice H. Polk, The Boss, 1932, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Delano Willis, F1988.119.