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Item 218824Portrait photograph of Theodore Dreiser.

(Dreiser, Theodore) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $3,000

New York: November 8, 1932. Variant of the print published in Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Theodore Dreiser Add to Wish List

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Item 218823Portrait photograph of Edward Albee.

(Albee, Edward) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,500

New York: April 18, 1961. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Edward Albee Add to Wish List

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Item 218822Portrait photograph of Edward Albee.

(Albee, Edward) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $2,000

New York: April 18, 1961. Variant of the session portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Van Vechten Portrait of Albee, 1961. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Edward Albee Add to Wish List

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Item 218818Portrait photograph of Eugene O'Neill.

(O'Neill, Eugene) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $2,250

[New York]: September 5, 1933. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Fine, atmospheric portrait of the playwright. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Eugene O'Neill Add to Wish List

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Item 213200Portrait photograph of Norman Mailer.

(Mailer, Norman) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,750

New York: Sept. 13. '48. INSCRIBED BY MAILER TO VAN VECHTEN'S LOVER. 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) Inscribed "To Saul Mauriber-after several pleasant evenings at Carl's Norman..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Norman Mailer Add to Wish List

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Item 211878Portrait photograph of Jessica Tandy as Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Desire"

(Tandy, Jessica) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $750

New York: April 24, 1949. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Jessica Tandy as Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Desire" Add to Wish List

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Item 211873Martha Graham as Clytemnestra and Bertram Ross as Orestes.

(Graham, Martha) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,750

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Item 211590Bust Portrait of Isamu Noguchi.

(Noguchi, Isamu) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $2,250

New York: 1935. Fine, early portrait of the 31-year old sculptor, quite early in his career. In 1935, Noguchi exhibited several political works, including the famous "Death (Lynched Figure") -- a subject which would have meant a great deal to Van Vechten. Read More Item Details for Bust Portrait of Isamu Noguchi Add to Wish List

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Item 211184Portrait photograph of Edward Lueders.

(Lueders, Edward) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,000

Taos, New Mexico: Nov 21 1951. Lueders was the author of a biography of Van Vechten, entitled CARL VAN VECHTEN AND THE TWENTIES (Albuquerque, 1955). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Edward Lueders Add to Wish List

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Item 211181Portrait photographer of Frieda Lawrence.

(Lawrence, Frieda) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,250

Taos, New Mexico: Aug 17, 1950. Three quarter length portrait of Frieda, reproduced (from the LOC copy) on the front cover of the D.H. Lawrence Review, Volume 29, # 2. Read More Item Details for Portrait photographer of Frieda Lawrence Add to Wish List

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Item 211176Portrait photograph of Thornton Wilder.

(Wilder, Thornton) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,500

[New York]: Aug 18, 1948. Three-quarter length portrait of the playwright, standing, hands gripping the lapels of his overcoat. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Thornton Wilder Add to Wish List

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Item 211175Portrait photograph of Jean Cocteau.

(Cocteau, Jean) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,500

[Paris]: Oct 14, 1949. Portrait of Cocteau leaning over the balustrade of a rooftop. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Jean Cocteau Add to Wish List

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Item 211174Portrait photograph of Clifford Odets.

(Odets, Clifford) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,500

[New York]: Sept 2, 1937. Half-length portrait of the young playwright (1906-1963) seated, wiping his spectacles with a handkerchief. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Clifford Odets Add to Wish List

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Item 211167Portrait photograph of Robinson Jeffers.

(Jeffers, Robinson) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,200

New York (“at Random House”): July 9, 1937. Fine, half-length portrait in profile of the poet, published in Van Vechten's PORTRAITS (1978). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Robinson Jeffers Add to Wish List

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Item 211165Portrait of Robinson Jeffers.

(Jeffers, Robinson) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,750

New York: July 9, 1937. Fine, intimate bust portrait of the poet. Library of Congress, which has four portraits of Jeffers in th Van Vechten collection, does not have a copy of this. Read More Item Details for Portrait of Robinson Jeffers Add to Wish List

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Item 211164Portrait photograph of Carlo Levi.

(Levi, Carlo) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,250

New York: June 4, 1947. Fine portrait of the Jewish-Italian author and painter (1902-1975), member of the Resistance. Taken possibly on the occasion of the American publication of his novel CHRIST STOPS AT EBOLI (NY, 1947). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Carlo Levi Add to Wish List

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Item 211161Portrait photograph of Marianne Moore.

Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,000

[New York]: Nov. 1, 1948. Fine, small portait of the poet in bowtie, seated in a chair before a wall of books; clearly taken during the same session as the famous Van Vechten portrait in the Library of Congress ([LC-USZ62-42513]). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Marianne Moore Add to Wish List

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Item 56143Two portrait photographs of Gertrude Wettergren.

(Wettergren, Gertrude) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,500

New York: December 4, 1935. The Swedish contralto Gertrude Wettergren (1897-1991), made her debut there in Stockholm in 1922 as Cherubino. She was engaged at the Stockholm Royal Opera for more than 25 years. She also sang all over Europe and in the USA, making her Metropolitan Opera debut in..... Read More Item Details for Two portrait photographs of Gertrude Wettergren Add to Wish List

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Item 56142Portrait photograph of Leo Stein.

(Stein, Leo) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,200

New York: Novenber 9, 1937. Van Vechten Portrait of Leo Stein. Leo Stein (1872-1947), together with his famous sister Gertrude, became one of the most important collectors of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and other artists of the period. His close, complex, and troubled relationship with his sister ihas been much written..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Leo Stein Add to Wish List

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Item 304577Portrait photograph of Chester Himes.

Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $850

[New York: March 8 1946]. Novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) had recently moved back east from California. He worked in a variety of menial jobs and worked on The Third Generation (1954) “the most explicitly autobiographical of his novels” (ANB). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Chester Himes Add to Wish List

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Item 303586Portrait photograph of Zachary Scott in costume as the King, in “The King and I"

(Scott, Zachary) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $300

[New York: May 2 1956. At the time, Broadway was enjoying a revival of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, with Scott in the role as the King. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Zachary Scott in costume as the King, in “The King and I" Add to Wish List

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Item 261189Portrait photograph of Marc Chagall.

(Chagall, Marc) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $2,000

New York: July 4, 1941. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Marc Chagall Add to Wish List

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Item 258605Portrait photograph of Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones).

(Baraka, Amiri) Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $1,250

New York: January 3, 1962. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones) Add to Wish List

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Item 257517Portrait photograph of Joe Louis: Greenwood Lakes.

Van Vechten, Carl.

Price: $3,000

Greenwood Lakes, N.J: [September 15, 1941]. Superb image of the great “Brown Bomber”at the height of his fame, taken at Joe Louis’s training camp in New Jersey on the eve of his title defense against Lou Nova (Sept. 29, 1941). Louis was featured on the front cover of Time magazine..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Joe Louis: Greenwood Lakes Add to Wish List

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