Van Vechten
Americannoun
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“Breaking up and reconstituting California into three separate parts would be more complicated than Brexit,” Van Vechten said.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2018
“Harlem Heroes” presents black and white photographs by Van Vechten, the author and social commentator, that span 30 years and feature major figures of the Harlem Renaissance as well as athletes, political figures and social leaders.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2016
In the show’s most chilling wink, he makes the white Harlem Renaissance gadfly Carl Van Vechten into a villainous scold who attacks the show while damning it to irrelevance.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2016
During the 1920s her two favorite novelists were Joseph Hergesheimer and Carl Van Vechten.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2016
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hoffman's daughter, Mrs. J. Van Vechten Olcott, is as beloved in her generation as her mother was before her.
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur
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