Between the Covers

Unbound. Gelatin silver portrait photograph. Measures approximately 5" x 8", mounted in a contemporary mat. Photographer's name embossed in blind in lower margin. Unexamined out of the mat, faint toning on mat, the photograph appears fine. The seated Locke pictured in a suit, holding a book or portfolio. Neatly Inscribed by Locke in the bottom margin to a noted collector and denizen of the Harlem Renaissance: "For Glenn Carrington from his friend Alain Locke. 1935." Locke was the college mentor of the Virginia-born Carrington, a gay African-American man, who was a noted collector of books, particularly by African-Americans, and a valued associate of the Harlem Renaissance group that included Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Bruce Nugent, Claude McKay, and the other gay and bi-sexual black authors who revolved around Locke.

Item #607237