Portrait Photograph of Richard Wright.
New York: June 23, 1939.
Price: $3,500.00
About the item
Gelatin silver print. Half length studio portrait of the author, seated before backdrop. 1 vols. 35 x 27.5 cm. (13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches). Atelier stamp on verso, and pencil notes giving the date of the session, name of sitter, Van Vechten's id number ("x p .0"). Minor smudges on verso.
Item #220932
Taken in the period between Wright's first success with UNCLE TOM'S CHILDREN (1938), and his leap to fame with NATIVE SON (1940).