When Cedar Rapids native Carl Van Vechten turned his focus from writing to photography in the 1930s, he opened visual doors to a world his white contemporaries seldom saw, especially New York City’s ...

As the Harlem Renaissance unfolded in the 1920s, few were closer to its hub than the black poet and playwright Langston Hughes and his white friend and mentor, the writer, photographer and patron of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook When Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten were introduced at a party in 1924, Hughes was a young ...

James Weldon Johnson, a Black poet and an early executive secretary of the NAACP, once said Cedar Rapids native Carl Van Vechten “has done more than any white man in America to publicize Black ...

The Gilded age: a tale of yesterday -- The cosmopolitan standard of virtue -- The shudder of fascination -- A certain sensuous charm -- How to read Gertrude Stein -- In defense of bad taste -- What ...

Brandeis' “Carl Van Vechten photographs, 1932-1964” showcases the work of a man fully immersed in the cultural world of the early 20th century. Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) is best ...

Alicia Henry is relaxed inside the Carl Van Vechten Gallery. She is relaxed in most places, but especially here — the gallery, named after the photographer and Harlem Renaissance patron, is the ...

Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues singer in Parisian nightclubs. A 1934 portrait of Nora Holt by Carl Van ...

Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.

Brandeis' “Carl Van Vechten photographs, 1932-1964” showcases the work of a man fully immersed in the cultural world of the early 20th century. Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) is best ...