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Hide/Seek: Carl Van Vechten by Romaine Brooks - National Portrait Gallery

Discussion by David C. Ward, co-curator of "Hide/Seek" and Historian at the National Portrait Gallery. Carl Van Vechten 1880-1964 Critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten was one of the ...
The Gazette

Carl Van Vechten exhibit at Cedar Rapids Museum of Art views history through photo lens

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 ...
Publishers Weekly

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White

Bernard's landmark study of Carl Van Vechten is by no means a complete portrait; rather, it is "a chronicle of one of his lives, his black life." Van Vechten was a "white man with a passion for ...
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Portrait of Rockwell Kent

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Carl Van Vechten. Portrait of ...
Afro

A portrait of Cab Calloway, by Carl Van Vechten (Courtesy Library of Congress)

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...