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Born June 17, 1880 • Cedar Rapids • Iowa
Died December 21, 1964 (aged 84) • New York City • New York
Movement / Style Harlem Renaissance

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Carl Van Vechten.
Anderson, Dame Judith
Anderson, Sherwood
Arlen, Harold
Samuel Barber, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1944.
Barnard, George Grey
Benton, Thomas Hart
Arna Bontemps, photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Bromfield, Louis
Dave Brubeck
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"Future Expectations" by James Van der Zee, c. 1925. James VanDerZee.
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.
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