New York: February 21, 1947. Rare image of the Caribbean-born dancer / choreographer, former member of the Katherine Dunham dance troupe, around the time of the staging of the first Calypso musical on Broadway, CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL choreographed by Marchant himself. Marchant, no doubt had danced in the previous show choreographed..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Claude Marchant
Price: $900
New York: April 23, 1948. Fine image of the dancer, and rare -- the Library of Congress collection of Van Vechten portrait contains no image of Diehl. Inscribed to Mauriber on image. Read More about Portrait photograph of Crandall Diehl in Anthony Tudor's ballet, SHADOW OF THE WIND
Price: $1,000
New York: [May 5, 1939]. Inscribed by Dame Judith Anderson to Mauriber on the image. Read More about Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson as Mother Mary in "Family Portrait"
Price: $3,500
New York: April 23, 1948. A fine and rare image (there are none of her in the Library of Congress) of one of the the great American ballerinas. Adams danced major roles in works by some of the century's greatest choreographers, including George Balanchine, Anthony Tudor, and Jerome Robbins. Later..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Diana Adams in Anthony Tudor's ballet, SHADOW OF THE WIND
Price: $750
New York: January 4, 1947. A rare image of dancer/choreographer Todd Bolender (b. 1914), one of the icons of American dance history. There are no images at all of Bolender in the Library of Congress. Inscribed to Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Todd Bolender in Balanchine's THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS
Price: $1,100
[New York: March 3, 1940]. Inscribed to Saul Mauriber in 1944 by Laing. Read More about Portrait photograph of Hugh Laing
Price: $800
[New York: 1940 Feb. 16]. A very scarce image Laing as he appeared in the Anthony Tudor ballet, and not in the Van Vechten collection of the Library of Congress. Inscribed to Mauriber in 1944. Read More about Portrait photograph of Hugh Laing in the ballet JARDIN AUX LILAS
Price: $900
New York: April 23, 1948. A very scarce image of Koesun, one of the stars of the American Ballet Theater in the 40s and 50s. There are no images of Koesun in the Van Vechten collection of the Library of Congress. Inscribed to Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Ruth Ann Koesun in Anthony Tudor's ballet, SHADOW OF THE WIND
Price: $900
New York: July 22, 1946. Inscribed by "the baby genius of the Harlem Renaissance" Phillipa Duke Schuyler, "the baby genius of the Harlem Renaissance," was a musical prodigy who " ... by the time she was four years old, was a skilled pianist; by five she was performing Mozart before..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Phillippa Schuyler
Price: $1,200
[New York: [June 13, 1947?]. Portrait of the author in the full flush of success. It was in 1947 that Chicago author Willard Motley (1909-1965) published his first novel, Knock on Any Door, which was both a critical and popular success, and which was eventually made into a movie (starring..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Willard Motley (1909-1965
Price: $1,500
[New York: 1945]. Inscribed by Markova. Inscribed by the great ballerina - one of Van Vechten's favorite subjects - to Van Vechten's assistant: To Saul / with my very best wishes / always / Alicia Markova / 1945." Read More about Portrait photograph of Alicia Markova as Marie Taglioni in PAS DE QUATRE
Price: $1,850
[New York: December 23, 1958 ]. Van Vechten, Carl. Signed and dated lower right by Armstrong-Jones. Read More about Portrait photograph of Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
Price: $900
New York: July 18, 1946. Fine, inscribed portrait, and a rare image of the playwright and historian Shirley Graham (1896-1977). Graham was the author of several plays, including "Elijah's Ravens" (1930), "Tom-Tom" (1932), "Dust to Earth" (1940), and "It's Morning" (1940). Graham was also a serious historian of Afro-American history..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Shirley Graham DuBois, inscribed to Saul Mauriber
Price: $1,500
[New York: January 17, 1935]. Signed Self-Portrait. Read More about Self-Portrait
Price: $1,250
New York: July 10, 1947. Read More about Portrait photograph of Alexander Calder
Price: $1,150
[New York]: March 1, 1932. From a rare and early series taken on the evening of March 1, 1932, when O'Neill and Carlotta dined at the home of Van Vechten and his wife Fania. None of this series is in the Library of Congress, nor at Yale (which has the..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Eugene O'Neill
Price: $1,500
[New York]: March 1, 1932. Rare Van Vechten Portrait of Eugene O'Neil. From a rare and early series taken on the evening of March 1, 1932, when O'Neill and Carlotta dined at the home of Van Vechten and his wife Fania. None of this series is in the Library of..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Eugene O'Neill
Price: $1,500
New York: June 28, 1955. Reproduced (from this print) in PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Chester Himes
Price: $1,000
New York: July 4, 1941. Reproduced in PORTRAITS: the Photography of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Marc Chagall
Price: $2,000
[New York]: March 17, 1964. Fine portrait of the Italian-born production and costume designer Beni Montresor (1904-2001) who moved to New York in 1960, and designed sets for the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, and several Broadway shows. He was also a noted illustrator of children's books. Read More about Portrait photograph of Beni Montresor
Price: $750
New York: June 23, 1939. Taken in the period between Wright's first success with UNCLE TOM'S CHILDREN (1938), and his leap to fame with NATIVE SON (1940). Read More about Portrait Photograph of Richard Wright
Price: $3,500
[New York: January 3, 1939]. Read More about Portrait photograph of Alexander Woollcott
Price: $1,000
New York: July 13, 1932. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Clifton Webb
Price: $500
New York: June 4, 1947. Read More about Portrait photograph of Virgil Thomson
Price: $1,850
