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 about Portrait photograph of Elie Lascaux, Chez Kohn Weiler, Paris

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 about Portrait photograph of Albert C. Barnes

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 about Portrait photograph of Peter Abrahams

New York: May 24, 1955. Caribbean Novelist. Read More about Portrait photograph of George Lamming

New York: December 10, 1934. Beatrice Kaufman (1895-1945) was the wife of wife George S. Kaufman, a playwright in her own right, and the East Coast representative of Samuel Goldwyn Pictures. It was Beatrice who, upon reading the galleys of Steinbeck’s OF MICE AND MEN sent to her by Steinbeck’s..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Beatrice Kaufman

New York: October 10, 1956. Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) was a gifted Afro-American composer and pianist whose close collaboration with Langston Hughes resulted in the most popular of her art songs, the cycle “Three Dream Portraits”. She is also the rarely acknowledged composer of the famous spiritual arrangement, “He's Got the..... Read More about Portrait Photograph of Margaret Bonds

New York: February 22, 1958. Gloria Davy, African-American soprano, was born in 1931. Read More about Portrait photograph of Gloria Davy as Aida, Act I, Scene I, “Ritisma Vincito“

New York: October 7, 1932. Gilbert Seldes -- critic, editor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter -- was the first American intellectual to lend legitimacy to popular culture; yet too fewAmericans recognize his name or appreciate his influence, according to Michael Kammen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Cornell. Kammen has written the first..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Mrs. Gilbert (Amanda) Seldes

New York: December 14th, 1936. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN(1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Leonor Fini

[New York: March 23, 1949. Van Vechten, Carl. Fine Vintage Billie Holiday Photograph by Van Vechten. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN (1978). Read More about Portrait Photograph of Billie Holiday

September 20. 1955. Read More about Portrait photograph of Ben Bennett

Victor Wittgenstein (1886-1961) was a noted American pianist of the early 20th century. He was born in Louisville Kentucky, was trained as a pianist in New York City with Edward McDowell and Rafael Joseffy, and in Europe with Varette Stepanoff. He returned to teach and concertize in the US, where..... Read More about Portait of Victor Wittgenstein, noted American pianist