Item 257486Portrait photograph of Gene Tunney.
Price: $2,500
New York: April 25, 1934. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Gene Tunney Add to Wish List
Item #257486
Price: $2,500
New York: April 25, 1934. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Gene Tunney Add to Wish List
Item #257486
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New York: Nov 20, 1958. Fine image of the tennis champion who broke the color barrier in lawn tennis, and won both the U.S. National and Wimbledon championships in 1957 and '58; in both years she was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Althea Gibson Add to Wish List
Item #257477
Price: $3,000
New York: n.d. [Oct. 23, 1935]. Variant of the session portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Superb character portrait of the great entertainer, and by far the best of the portraits from the session of Oct 23, 1935 in Van Vechten’s..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of George M. Cohan Add to Wish List
Item #257475
Price: $750
New York: May 10, 1955. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Burl Ives Add to Wish List
Item #231255
Price: $750
New York: May 16, 1951. Reproduced in PHOTOGRAPHS OF CARL VAN VECHTEN, edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More Item Details for Portrait of Ralph Bunche Add to Wish List
Item #227051
Price: $750
New York: April 12, 1951. Read More Item Details for Portrait of actor Ossie Davis in costume as Gabriel, Green Pastures Add to Wish List
Item #227049
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Paris: 1949. Probably taken just before Cocteau's trip to America in 1949. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Jean Cocteau Add to Wish List
Item #222172
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N.p: n.d. [ca. 1945]. Inscribed to Saul Mauriber. A rare image of the photographer's wife, the Russian-born actress, Fania Marinoff, which is not in the Van Vechten Collection of the Library of Congress; and a superb association, inscribed in the image: "Dear Kind Snot Saul . My affection best wishes..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Fania Marinoff (Mrs. Carl Van Vechten) Add to Wish List
Item #222164
Price: $3,500
New York: January 5, 1956. Inscribed to Saul Mauriber. Inscribed by the great Chinese-American actress to Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten’s assistant: "To Sol [sic]: " A friend indeed and deeds. All good wishes. Anna May Wong [signed beneath in Chinese characters]" Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Anna May Wong in costume in her role as the Princess Turandot Add to Wish List
Item #222163
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New York: June 28, 1955. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Al Hirschfeld Add to Wish List
Item #222162
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New York: January 5, 1956. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Carol Channing in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES Add to Wish List
Item #222159
Price: $950
New York: July 5, 1946. reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAIT: The Photography of Carl van Vechten (from this print). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Pearl Bailey in "St. Louis Woman" Add to Wish List
Item #222118
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New York: November 15, 1961. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Ruby Dee Add to Wish List
Item #222022
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New York: Feb. 18, 1954. Belafonte's film and singing career was taking off -- in 1954 he landed a role in the film Carmen Jones, and in the year Van Vechten photographed him in this series, Belafonte was starring in the Broadway musical "John Murray Anderson's Almanac", for which he..... Read More Item Details for Portrait Photograph of Harry Belafonte in "Almanac" Add to Wish List
Item #222019
Price: $1,500
New York: June 25, 1949. She was "Bloody Mary" in the original 1949 production of South Pacific. Although Afro-American, the most memorable roles of the great singer-actress Juanita Hall (1901 - 1968) were as Asians. Read More Item Details for Portrait of Juanita Hall as "Bloody Mary" in SOUTH PACIFIC Add to Wish List
Item #222017
Price: $750
New York: September 25, 1962. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Ruby Dee Add to Wish List
Item #221028
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New York: May 19 1953. Rare portrait of the young soprano at the beginning of her operatic stardom, in coat and gown, taking a "curtain call". Not in the Library of Congress collection. Read More Item Details for Portrait Photograph of Leontyne Price Add to Wish List
Item #220936
Price: $750
New York: 7 April, 1941. Canada Lee as Bigger Thomas, 1941. Lee was acclaimed for his portrayal of Bigger Thomas in Orson Welles' 1941 stage adaptation of the Richard Wright' s NATIVE SON. Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times called his performance "the most vital piece of acting on..... Read More Item Details for Portrait Photograph of Canada Lee as Bigger Thomas, in the 1941 Orson Welles' stage adaptation of NATIVE SON Add to Wish List
Item #220931
Price: $750
New York: July 13, 1932. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Clifton Webb Add to Wish List
Item #220753
Price: $3,000
New York: [Feb. 17, 1936]. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Fernand Leger Add to Wish List
Item #219302
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New York: September 11, 1934. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson Add to Wish List
Item #219148
Price: $1,000
On the deck of the ocean liner “Conte di Savoia”: May 16, 1935. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Elsa Maxwell Add to Wish List
Item #219146
Price: $2,000
New York: April 18, 1932. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Fania Marinoff (Mrs. Carl Van Vechten) Add to Wish List
Item #219125
Price: $3,000
New York: June 28, 1955. Variant of the portrait from the same session published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Al Hirschfeld Add to Wish List
Item #219116
Price: $3,500
New York: n.d. [Oct. 23, 1935]. Superb character portrait of the great entertainer, and by far the best of the portraits from the session of Oct 23, 1935 in Van Vechten's studio, of which the Library of Congress has 12 examples -- but not this. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of George M. Cohan Add to Wish List
Item #219105