EVB2944234:
Elsa Maxwell, on the Italian ocean line, Conte de Savoia, May 16, 1935. Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933023:
Marian Anderson (1897-1993), African American opera singer in 1940 portrait by Carl Van Vechten, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933080:
Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993), African American jazz trumpeter and composer. Carl Van Vechten portrait of 1955, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933110:
Leontyne Price (b. 1927), African American opera star singing. 1953 portrait by Carl Van Vechten, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932573:
Lin Yutang (1895-1976) Chinese writer and magazine publisher of European styled Chinese magazines. 1939 portrait by Carl Van Vechten, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933021:
Marian Anderson (1897-1993), African American opera singer, received greater recognition in Europe in the 1930's than in Americ. 1940 portrait by Carl Van Vechten, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
PUT3919507:
Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra, 13 June 1899 - 2 August 1978, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933013:
Bill Robinson (1878-1949), also known as Bojangles, in a stylized portrait by African American photographer Carl Van Vechten. 1933, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932628:
Chester Himes (1909-1984) expatriate African American "noir" novelist, writer of detective novels and stories. 1946, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2929609:
Lotte Lenya (1898-1981), Austrian singer and actress, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, February 13, 1962, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2929599:
Cab Calloway (1907-1994), African American band leader and jazz singer, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1933, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2928494:
Ethel Waters (1896-1977), American blues singer, portrait by Carl Van Vechten, August 28, 1938, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933020:
Marian Anderson (1897-1993), African American contralto singing in 1940 portrait by Carl Van Vechten, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933038:
Pearl Bailey (1918-1990), in costume from ST. LOUIS WOMAN, a musical based on the novel, GOD SENDS SUNDAY, by African-American writer Arna Bontemps. Bailey stared in the 1946 theatrical success, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936029:
George Grey Barnard (1863-1938), American sculptor, created several important monuments, including a controversial statue of Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati in 1917. Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2929600:
Orson Welles (1915-1985), American director, writer actor and producer, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, March 1, 1937, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2929603:
Leontyne Price, African American opera singer, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, May 19, 1953, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933115:
Leontyne Price (b. 1927), African American opera star as Bess, from George Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS. 1953, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933592:
Roland Hayes (1887-1977), African American tenor, achieved international recognition during his 1920 European tour. By the late 1920s he was the highest-paid tenor in the world, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933888:
Geoffrey Holder (b. 1930), Trinidadian actor and dancer, in 1954. His films include DR DOLITTLE 1967, LIVE AND LET DIE 1973, and ANNIE 1982. He directed and designed costumes for musical play, THE WIZ, 1975, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932354:
Padraic Colum (1881-1972) holding walking stick, in 1959 portrait by Carl Van Vechten, wrote poetry, novels, folklore, and children's books with Celtic themes, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images