Van Vechten
Americannoun
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Stettheimer is beloved for her ultrafeminine faux-naïf style, expressed in richly detailed paintings that often featured her circle of friends, including the artist Marcel Duchamp, the writer Carl Van Vechten, and the sculptor Elie Nadelman.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2021
“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
There’s Carl Van Vechten, calling Stevens “a dainty rogue in porcelain” who was “big, blond, and burly”—he stood six feet two—but possessed of “a tiny reserved spirituality.”
From The New Yorker • May 2, 2016
And the first little winged thought who found Peter Van Vechten was to summon his aerial brothers from the ether.
From The Motor Maids Across the Continent by Stokes, Katherine
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