Van Vechten
Americannoun
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He provides as examples the work of writers Carl Van Vechten, Flannery O’Connor and Mark Twain, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, comedian Lenny Bruce and a number of others.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022
I asked Van Vechten if the proposal would benefit the rich; she said yes, however, anyone who was politically well-organized would benefit — a category that generally includes the rich.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2018
The exhibition mines the museum's permanent collection for 39 photographs taken by author Carl Van Vechten.
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 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
There was quite an old-world courtesy about this Peter Van Vechten that appealed to the little lady, and she promptly introduced her girls and herself.
From The Motor Maids Across the Continent by Stokes, Katherine
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