Portrait photograph of Ethel Waters
New York: Carl Van Vechten, [circa 1940].
Price: $950.00
Unbound. Gelatin silver real photo postcard. Approximately 3½" x 5½". Fine. Photographer's embossed name. Captioned by Van Vechten on the verso: "Ethel Waters. 63." Bust portrait of Waters.
Item #440884
Carl Van Vechten
birth name: Carl Van Vechten
born: 6/17/1880
died: 12/21/1964
Biography
American novelist and music and drama critic, an influential figure in New York literary circles in the 1920s; he was an early enthusiast of American black culture. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore