Call Number:

F0037

Repository:

University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Extent:

1 item

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

GRA 0099, F0037, Carl Van Vechten photograph portrait of Owen Dodson, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

Date:

1943 june 18 (inclusive)

Creator:

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964

Form:

Black-and-white photographs, Portraits, and Gelatin silver prints

Abstract:

Black-and-white photograph portrait of poet, novelist, playwright, and educator Owen Dodsen taken by photographer Carl Van Vechten in New York on June 18, 1942.

Critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten, born June 17, 1880, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was active in the cultural scenes of New York City and Paris during the early half of the twentieth century. After 1932, Van Vechten worked predominantly as a photographer, producing classic images of many literary and cultural figures. Van Vechten was also Gertrude Stein's literary executor and following her death in 1946 edited much of her collected writing. Carl Van Vechten died on December 21, 1964.

"Carl Van Vechten." Contemporary Authors Online. Gale Biography in Context. (accessed December 2011).

Poet, novelist, playwright, and educator Owen Dodson (1914-1983) is renowned for his prolific, wide-ranging, and influential writing career and for his role as instructor and director of drama at various distinguished universities.

"Owen Dodson." Notable Black American Men, Book II, October 12, 1998. Gale Biography in Context. (accessed October, 2017).

Black-and-white photograph portrait of poet, novelist, playwright, and educator Owen Dodsen taken by photographer Carl Van Vechten in New York on June 18, 1942.