James Weldon Johnson, a Black poet and an early executive secretary of the NAACP, once said Cedar Rapids native Carl Van Vechten “has done more than any white man in America to publicize Black ...
This online exhibit is presented in conjunction with the 16th Annual Lillian L. Rolde Lecture, “The Strange Saga of How Georgia O'Keeffe (posthumously) Helped Uncover Carl Van Vechten's Portrait ...
When Cedar Rapids native Carl Van Vechten turned his focus from writing to photography in the 1930s, he opened visual doors to a world his white contemporaries seldom saw, especially New York City’s ...
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