Portrait photograph of Carl Van Vechten
1956.
Price: $600.00
Hardcover. Gelatin silver photograph. Approximately 8" x 10". Fine. Inscribed by Van Vechten on the verso: "For [?] with love, Carl Van Vechten at the [?] Theatre. Photo by Bruce Kellner. July 1, 1956." Portrait of the elderly Van Vechten in sports jacket and slacks on the sidewalk. Kellner was a scholar who wrote several books on Van Vechten.
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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