Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 Jackman, Harold, 1901-1961 Johnson, John H. (John Harold), 1918-2005 Price, Florence, 1887-1953
Published / Created:
1942 June–1945
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 22 | 428-436
Image Count:
193
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Folders 430, 431, and 432 digitized. and Includes letters from Florence B. Price (1943); John H. Johnson of Negro Digest (1944) and Ebony magazine (1945); Carol Fijan of the International Workers Order, Inc. (1944); "Henry Mack," typescript poem by Witter Bynner enclosed with Jackman letter to CVV (1944); photograph of Lena Horne sent as a postcard from Jackman to CVV (1945) and the script from a radio broadcast on W.N.Y.C. on the life of Langston Hughes (1944)
Subject (Name):
Horne, Lena, Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, International Workers Order, and Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Harlem Renaissance
BEIN JWJ Zan B644 932P: Presentation copy to Carl Van Vechten, signed by both authors. Original dust wrapper. and CVV, p. 25.
Publisher:
Macmillan,
Subject (Geographic):
Haiti--Fiction
Subject (Name):
Bontemps, Arna,--1902-1973--Presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten, Campbell, E. Simms (Elmer Simms), 1906-1971, Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, Hughes, Langston,--1902-1967--Presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten, Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Presentation inscription from A. Bontemps, and Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Presentation inscription from L. Hughes
For medium voice and piano., First line: De railroad bridge is a sad song in de air., Illustrated title page in brown, black, and white; design by Mordi depicts a Black man, with head thrown back, standing in the foreground; a railroad track winds to a country house in the distance., and Advertisement for "New songs by Jacques Wolfe" (with his portrait and musical excerpts) on p. [6].
Publisher:
Robbins Music Corp
Subject (Name):
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 and Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Subject (Topic):
Songs (Medium voice) with piano and African Americans
The collection consists of seven portrait drawings of noted African Americans and Haitians by the artist Amy Einstein Spingarn. The sitters include scientist George Washington Carver (1935) and authors Langston Hughes (1930), Zora Neale Hurston (circa 1935), James Weldon Johnson (undated), René Piquion (undated), George S. Schuyler (1933), and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin (undated). The portrait of Carver is pastel on paper; the others are charcoal and graphite on paper. Each portrait is identified by the artist's inscriptions and signature
Description:
Amy Einstein Spingarn was born in New York on January 29, 1883, the daughter of American businessman and manufacturer David L. Einstein (1839-1909) and Caroline Fatman Einstein (1852-1910). In 1905 she married Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939), a Columbia University literature professor and a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In addition to being an artist herself, Amy Einstein Spingarn was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and supported the work of many black artists and writers; she also served on the board of directors of the NAACP for nearly forty years. Spingarn died at her home, Troutbeck, in Amenia, New York, on June 25, 1980., Title devised by cataloger., and Captions in English.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943, Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, Hurston, Zora Neale, Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, Piquion, René, Schuyler, George S. 1895-1977 (George Samuel),, Spingarn, Amy Einstein, 1883-1980., and Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe, 1904-1975
