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- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published / Created:
- 1937 October 23
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 350 | Folder 4662
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten" and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / Cannot be reproduced without permission."
- Subject (Name):
- Glackens, William J, 1870-1938
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists --United States, Illustrators--United States, and Painters--20th century--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Glackens, William J.
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- Creator:
- Douglas, Aaron, artist
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 167
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- Abstract:
- One gouache drawing by Aaron Douglas created to illustrate "The Prodigal Son" in God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, by James Weldon Johnson (New York: Viking Press, 1927). The illustration features silhouettes of a man and two women grouped under a single overhead light, and framed by graphic representations of jazz-age vices such as a dollar bill, playing cards, dice, and a gin bottle, as well as jazz trombones, jutting in from the outside edges. It is one of eight illustrations by Douglas for the volume.
- Alternative Title:
- The Prodigal Son
- Description:
- Aaron Douglas, American painter and illustrator active in the Harlem Renaissance; he was born in 1899 in Topeka, Kansas, and died in 1979 in Nashville, Tennessee., Gift of Grace Nail Johnson, 1966., and Title devised by cataloger.
- Subject (Name):
- Douglas, Aaron and Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.--God's Trombones--Illustrations
- Subject (Topic):
- Illustration of books--United States and Illustrators--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Illustration for God's trombones].
