'I am determined never again to visit that unloved town,” Carl Van Vechten once said of his hometown of Cedar Rapids. His disdain for the small Midwestern city was not a secret, but he mentioned Cedar ...

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 ...

In an enlightening new biography, The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America, Edward White describes what we don’t see as “front teeth that became a trademark in his years of ...

Carl Van Vechten, Marsden Hartley June 7, 1939. Gelatin silver print. Graphic Arts Collection Carl Van Vechten, Alfred Stieglitz April 17, 1935. Gelatin silver print. Graphic Arts Collection Carl Van ...

Although he would hardly cause a blip on cultural radar screens today, Carl Van Vechten was, at various stages of his long and storied life, a journalist, provocateur, novelist, nightlife denizen, ...

Brandeis' “Carl Van Vechten photographs, 1932-1964” showcases the work of a man fully immersed in the cultural world of the early 20th century. Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) is best ...

The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America, by Edward White. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 400 pages. $30. The reputation of the New York writer and salonnier Carl Van Vechten is ...

The RISD Museum announced a significant gift of 52 works of painting, sculpture, textiles, clothing, prints, drawings, and photographs from artist and collector Jolie Stahl. The term Harlem ...

An original vintage gelatin silver print portrait of Marlon Brando taken by Carl van Vechten. Carl Van Vechten has photographed many of the most prominent artists, musicians and writers of the ...

The author of The Blind Bow-Boy is a tall, slim, white-haired, slightly florid young man of middle age. I have often observed him, have corresponded with him, but have never consciously spoken to him.