Carl Van Vechten

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Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as w

Self-portrait (1934)

Van Vechten is depicted in Asbury Park South, 1920 painting by Jazz Age artist Florine Stettheimer. Amid a summer crowd in Asbury Park, the artist is under a green parasol, several of her friends are also recognizable. Van Vechten stands on the elevated structure left (black suit), Avery Hopwood (white suit, right side) talks with a woman in a yellow dress, and the Swiss painter Paul Thévanaz (red bathing suit) bends over a camera. Artist Marcel Duchamp (pink suit) walks with Van Vechten's wife, the actress

Van Vechten House and Studio, Manhattan, New York City, 2017

Saul Mauriber, after a photograph of Salvador Dalí by Philippe Halsman (1944), by Van Vechten

Jimmie Daniels

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James Lesley Daniels was an American cabaret performer, actor, model, and nightclub owner, a part of the Harlem Renaissance.

Carl Van Vechten

…50 years, they often argued about Van Vechten's affairs with men. Van Vechten kept a circle of handsome young men around him, including Donald Angus, Jimmie Daniels, Max Ewing, and Prentiss Taylor. Van Vechten was also known to have romantic and sexual relationships with men, especially Mark Lutz. Lutz (1901–1968…

Portrait by Carl Van Vechten (July 11, 1940)

Philip Johnson by Carl Van Vechten, c.1933

Kenneth Macpherson (left foreground) and Daniels at the opening of the Federal Theatre Project's production of Macbeth, April 14, 1936

Jimmie, bust by Richmond Barthé, 1938