Price: $750
October 20, 1937. Barnes, Albert C(oombs): Pharmaceutical manufacturer and art collector. He obtained a medical degree and later studied in Germany. In 1902 he made a fortune with his invention of the antiseptic Argyrol. After building a mansion in Merion, Pa., in 1905, he began to collect art seriously, amassing..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Albert C. Barnes, New York Add to Wish List
Item #57997
Price: $750
Marion, PA: September 17, 1937. Barnes, Albert C(oombs): Pharmaceutical manufacturer and art collector. He obtained a medical degree and later studied in Germany. In 1902 he made a fortune with his invention of the antiseptic Argyrol. After building a mansion in Merion, Pa., in 1905, he began to collect art..... Read More Item Details for Portrait Photograph of Albert C. Barnes Add to Wish List
Item #57995
Price: $450
April 18, 1939. Read More Item Details for “Plage” Kristians Tonny. Nudes at the beach Add to Wish List
Item #57993
Price: $250
November 29(?), 1938. Greek/Italian Surrealist painter and sculptor (1888-1978). Read More Item Details for “Self Portrait” Giorgio De Chirico Add to Wish List
Item #57992
Price: $300
January 18, 1955. Read More Item Details for Photograph of study for "U.S.A" by Elwyn Chamberlain Add to Wish List
Item #57988
Price: $1,200
January 25, 1939. American Magic Realist Painter, (1905-1988). Read More Item Details for Portrait Photograph of Jared French Add to Wish List
Item #57985
Price: $500
March 12, 1941. Swedish Sculptor. Read More Item Details for Portrait Photograph of Carl Milles (1875-1995) Add to Wish List
Item #57984
Price: $750
October 20, 1937. Barnes, Albert C(oombs): Pharmaceutical manufacturer and art collector. He obtained a medical degree and later studied in Germany. In 1902 he made a fortune with his invention of the antiseptic Argyrol. After building a mansion in Merion, Pa., in 1905, he began to collect art seriously, amassing..... Read More Item Details for Portait photograph of Albert C. Barnes Add to Wish List
Item #57928
Price: $500
March (?) 10, 1953. Read More Item Details for Claude Pierre Blanche Add to Wish List
Item #57927
Price: $800
June 4, 1964. Adolfo Best Maugard was a Mexican Painter, 1891-1964. Best Maugard established and promoted a new drawing teaching method, based on popular art elements and on the study of pre-Columbian forms, that was part of the nationalistic environment of that time. The theory standed out that with seven..... Read More Item Details for Portrait Photograph of Adolfo Best Maugard Add to Wish List
Item #57926
Price: $500
November 23, 1933. Lee Simonson (1888-1967), a major force in American scenic design, discovered in his youth what the "painters' and designers' vision could do to revivify the theater." A rare Van Vechten image -- no copy exists in the Library of Congress Collection of Van Vechten photographs. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Lee Simonson Add to Wish List
Item #57924
Price: $1,250
[New York]: 27 April, 1938. Rare photo of the eminent writer Israel Joshua Singer (1889 - 1944), author of THE BROTHERS ASHKENAZI, and older brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer, who referred to him as his mentor. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of I.J. Singer Add to Wish List
Item #57832
Price: $2,250
[New York]: 14 October, 1948. Very early photographic portrait of the 23-year-old Vidal, taken in the year that the publication of his controversial novel THE CITY AND THE PILLAR scandalized the mainstream press. Read More Item Details for Portrait of Gore Vidal Add to Wish List
Item #57819
Price: $3,000
[New York]: 30 March, 1948. One of a famous series taken Van Vechten of the 23-year-old Capote posing in slacks and t-shirt, in front of a theatrical backdrop of marionettes. Just after the publication of his first book, OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS (1948). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Truman Capote Add to Wish List
Item #57818
Price: $2,000
New York: Jan 22 1940. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Henry Miller Add to Wish List
Item #57794
Price: $750
New York: 14 Dec 1938. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Edna Ferber Add to Wish List
Item #57790
Price: $1,500
New York: Sept 13 1948. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Norman Mailer Add to Wish List
Item #57787
Price: $3,000
New York: Nov. 14, 1948. Van Vechten and Williams were close, and Van Vechten reguarly photographed actors in their roles in Williams' seminal plays like "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." This shot would've been taken while Streetcar was still in its triumphant Brando and..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Tennessee Williams Add to Wish List
Item #57781
Price: $750
Paris: October 19, 1949. Gertrude Stein once described the paintings of French artist Elie Lascaux (1888-1968) by saying that in all his works there is "that white light which is the light that Elie Lascaux has inside him." His work is characterized by its architectural detail and its blend of..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Elie Lascaux, Chez Kohn Weiler, Paris Add to Wish List
Item #56183
Price: $750
New York: 20 October 1937. Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951), self-made businessman, had a distaste for inherited privilege and a respect for the common man, which fed the fires of his interest in industrial relations, self-improvement, and equal rights for African Americans. His desire to provide nondiscriminatory access to art and..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Albert C. Barnes Add to Wish List
Item #56181
Price: $500
New York: June 4, 1964. Aldolfo Best-Maugard (1891-1964) was a Mexican painter and author of “An Approach to Creative Design” (1925). He established and promoted a new drawing teaching method, based on popular art elements and on the study of pre-Columbian forms, that was part of the nationalistic environment of..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Adolfo Best-Maugard Add to Wish List
Item #56179
Price: $1,000
New York: November 25, 1955. Peter Abrahams (1919- ), is a South African novelist who was deeply influenced by his discovery of the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. His early novel "Mine Boy" (1946) was the first to emphasize the dehumanizing effect of racism upon South African blacks... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Peter Abrahams Add to Wish List
Item #56155
Price: $500
New York: March 13, 1956. William Demby is the author of The Catacombs and Love Story: Black. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of William Demby Add to Wish List
Item #56154
Price: $500
New York: November 18, 1958. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of John Carter Add to Wish List
Item #56152
