James Lesley Daniels was an American cabaret performer, actor, model, and nightclub owner, a part of the Harlem Renaissance.
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
Kenneth Macpherson was a Scottish-born novelist, photographer, critic, and film-maker, the son of Scottish painter John 'Pop' Macpherson and Clara Macpherson, and descended from six generations of art
Jimmie Daniels
…sex with him, I gather. But I was naughty. I went to Europe and I would never think of taking Jimmie along." Later Daniels was in a relationship with Kenneth Macpherson, filmmaker who was married with wealthy English heiress Annie Winifred Ellerman, also known as Bryher. Bryher commissioned Richmond Barthé to make a…
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