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1.
Hurston, Zora Neale

Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1940
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 223
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Slide numbers 236, 237,238, 239. Image set number CCLXXXI.
Subject (Name):
Hurston, Zora Neale
Subject (Topic):
African American women novelists., African American women --Southern States, Folklorists --United States., and Novelists, American --20th century.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hurston, Zora Neale

2.
Hurston, Zora Neale

Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1935 April 3
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 93 | Folder 1637
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
On verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Cannot be reproduced without permission.
Subject (Name):
Hurston, Zora Neale
Subject (Topic):
African American authors and African American women
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hurston, Zora Neale

3.
Hurston, Zora Neale, at Chicago, Illinois

Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1934 November 9
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 93 | Folder 1638
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
On verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Cannot be reproduced without permission.
Subject (Name):
Hurston, Zora Neale
Subject (Topic):
African American authors and African American women
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hurston, Zora Neale, at Chicago, Illinois

4.
[Portrait drawings].

Creator:
Spingarn, Amy Einstein, 1883-1980, artist
Published / Created:
1930-1935.
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 150
Container / Volume:
Box (Oversize)
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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
Subject (Topic):
Artists
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Portrait drawings].