by Edward White
Wilder, Thornton
Wild West shows
Willard, Frances
Williams, Berkeley
Williams, Bert
Williams, Lulu
Williams, William Carlos
Williams and Walker; see also Williams, Bert
Wilson, Edmund
Wine of the Puritans, The (Brooks)
Winter Garden Theatre (New York)
Women’s Club of America
women’s suffrage
Wong, Anna May
Woollcott, Alexander
World’s Columbian Exposition
World War I; African-American culture and; armistice ending; CVV on meaning of; “lost generation” in Europe after; outbreak of; United States in
World War II
Wylie, Elinor
Y
Yale University; Collection of American Literature; James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters
Yeats, W. B.
Yiddish culture
Yust, Walter
Z
Zabelle, Flora
Zit’s Weekly
Illustration Credits
Carl Van Vechten, December 17, 1881 (Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
Carl Van Vechten, aged three, with his parents, Ada and Charles (seated), his brother, Ralph, and his sister, Emma, November 7, 1883 (Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
Desdemona Sublett, c. 1922 (General Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
Olive Fremstad as Salome at the Metropolitan Opera House, January 1907 (Photograph courtesy of Metropolitan Opera Archives)
Portrait of Carl Van Vechten by Martha Baker, 1906 (Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations)
Portrait of Avery Hopwood by Florine Stettheimer, c. 1915–18 (Photograph courtesy of Avery Hopwood Room, University of Michigan)
Isadora Duncan dancing “La Marseillaise,” 1917 (Photograph by Arnold Genthe. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations)
Fania Marinoff (Photograph by Herman Mishkin. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
Mabel Dodge, c. 1910 (Photograph by Jacques-Émile Blanche. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Fania Marinoff and Carl Van Vechten, c. 1925 (Photograph by Nickolas Muray. © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives; courtesy of Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
Blanche and Alfred Knopf, c. 1932 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-118069 DLC)
H. L. Mencken, c. 1913 (Photographer unidentified. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
Carl Van Vechten, c. 1925 (Photograph by Nickolas Muray. © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
Donald Angus, aged nineteen, c. 1919 (Photograph by Claridge Studio, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
Tallulah Bankhead, c. 1934 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-134171 DLC)
Max Ewing, c. 1932 (Photograph by Max Ewing. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
George Gershwin, c. March 1937 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-126699 DLC)
Walter White, c. March 1942 (Photograph by Gordon Parks. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-013344-C)
James Weldon Johnson, c. 1920 (Photograph by James Calvin Patton. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
Nora Holt, c. 1930 (Photograph by James Hargis Connelly. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
Paul Robeson, c. 1933 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-59725 DLC)
Langston Hughes working as a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)
A caricature of Carl Van Vechten as a black man by Miguel Covarrubias, entitled A Prediction (© María Elena Rico Covarrubias. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
Zora Neale Hurston, c. 1938 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-79898 DLC)
Mabel Dodge Luhan, c. 1934 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-106861 DLC)
Carl Van Vechten at the Famous Players-Lasky studio, Los Angeles, January 30, 1927. From left to right: Frank Case, Van Vechten, Flora Zabelle, Emil Jannings, Bertha Case, Jesse Lasky (Photographer unidentified. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
Lois Moran, c. 1932 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1937 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-118643 DLC)
Carl Van Vechten, self-portrait, c. 1934 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-124551 DLC)
Anna May Wong, c. 1932 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-42509 DLC)
Gertrude Stein, January 4, 1935 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-103680 DLC)
Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein aboard the SS Champlain as Stein waves farewell to the United States, May 4, 1935 (© Bettmann/CORBIS)
Bessie Smith, 1936 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-124517 DLC)
The dancer Al Bledger, c. 1938 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-114506 DLC)
A sketch by Wynn Chamberlain at some point during the mid-1950s that Van Vechten put in his scrapbooks. Chamberlain identifies this as a preparatory sketch for Doorway, a painting that was subsequently bought by Lincoln Kirstein. (© Elwyn Chamberlain. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
Allen Juante Meadows, c. 1940 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-114425 DLC)
Hugh Laing, c. 1940 (Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection)
Carl Van Vechten, c. 1960 (Photograph by Oscar White. © Bettmann/CORBIS)
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Edward White studied European and American history at Mansfield College, Oxford, and Goldsmiths College, London. Since 2005 he has worked in the British television industry, including two years at the BBC, devising programs in its arts and history departments. He is a contributor to The Times Literary Supplement. The Tastemaker is his first book. White lives in London.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
White, Edward, 1981–
The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America / Edward White. — First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-374-20157-9 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-70881-8 (ebook)
1. Van Vechten, Carl, 1880–1964. 2. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. 3. Photographers—United States—Biography. I. Title.
PS3543.A653 Z95 2014
813'.52—dc23
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