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“Our second show was Edward Curtis, the third was James Van Der Zee, and in six months we were out of the red.”

In his first New York solo in 1994 he showed, along with “Brotherhood,” a beautiful studio portrait he’d made of his grandfather, Albert Sidney Johnson Jr., a prolific amateur photographer who had himself been photographed by James Van Der Zee and whom Harris considered an inspiration.

The wing will also be home to Leonard Lauder’s Cubism gift, received in 2013, Hollein said, as well as the archive of the photographer James Van Der Zee, which it acquired with the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2021, and its Philip Guston collection, received in 2022.

“It’s early days,” says Lucas van der Zee, a plant biologist at Wageningen University who has also been trying to grow plants in the dark, but so far without success.

All of which concerns Dutch author Sytze van der Zee, the former chief editor of Het Parool newspaper.