Lillian Bassman, Solarized Fashion Study (ca. 1960). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Lizzie and Eric Himmel. © Estate of Lillian Bassman.

Lillian Bassman, Variant of The Yellow Smock Coat (1950). Gelatin silver print with applied media. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Lizzie and Eric Himmel. © Estate of Lillian Bassman.

Junior Bazaar, January 1947. Design by Lillian Bassman and Alexey Brodovitch, featuring a photograph by Ernst Beadle. Collection of Vince Aletti. Courtesy of Harper’s BAZAAR/Hearst Magazine Media, Inc.

Lillian Bassman and Rouben Samberg, “Vocabulary of Courage,” 1944. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Lizzie and Eric Himmel, 2025.

Lillian Bassman, Variant of Lighter Girdles, Rounder Curves (1948). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Lizzie and Eric Himmel. © Estate of Lillian Bassman.