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Carl Van VechtenWW-1934-010226
1934·Gelatin silver print·Image: 9 3/16 × 6 3/8 in. (23.4 × 16.2 cm)
Sheet: 9 3/16 × 6 3/8 in. (23.3 × 16.2 cm)
Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, by exchange, 2022
Catalogue
- Year
- 1934
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 9 3/16 × 6 3/8 in. (23.4 × 16.2 cm) Sheet: 9 3/16 × 6 3/8 in. (23.3 × 16.2 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Carl Van Vechten
Artist
Carl Van Vechten
Photography
Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven. In his later years, he took up photography and took many portraits of notable people. Although he was married to women for most of his adult years, Van Vechten engaged in numerous affairs with other men during his lifetime.
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- Carl Van Vechten
- Year
- 1934
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 9 3/16 × 6 3/8 in. (23.4 × 16.2 cm) Sheet: 9 3/16 × 6 3/8 in. (23.3 × 16.2 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1934-010226
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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- Status
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