1999 ‘O, Write My Name’: American Portraits—Harlem Her-
oes; Walsh Library Gallery, Seton Hall University, South
Orange, New Jersey
Group Exhibitions
1994 Exhibition of Caricatures by Covarrubias, Portraits by
Van Vechten; Oval Gallery, Library of Congress, Washing-
ton, D.C.
2000 Paul Robeson: Portrait of an Artist; Mercer County
Community College, West Windsor, New Jersey
Selected Works
Cab Callaway, January 12, 1933, 1933
James Stewart, October 15, 1934, 1934
Anna May Wong, September 22, 1935, 1935
Zora Neale Hurston, April 1938, 1938
Marian Anderson, January 14, 1940, 1940
Josephine Baker, October 20, 1949, 1949
Harry Belafonte, February 18, 1954, 1954
Further Reading
Bernard, Emily, ed.Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters
of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten. New York:
Knopf, 2001.
Burns, Edward, ed.The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl
Van Vechten, 1913–1946. (2 vols.). New York: Columbia
UP, 1986.
Byrd, Rudolph P., ed.Generations in Black and White.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
Coleman, Leon.Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renais-
sance: A Critical Assessment. New York: Garland, 1998.
Kellner, Bruce.Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Dec-
ades. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.
Lueders, Edward G.Carl Van Vechten. New York: Twayne,
1965.
VAN VECHTEN, CARL
Carl Van Vechten, Langston Hughes, poet, Photograph, gelatin silver print, by Carl Van
Vechten, 1932, 14.121.4 cm, Gift of Prentiss Taylor.
[National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art Resource, New York]