Carl Van Vechten

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Samuel Barber, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1944.

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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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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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