Word: vechten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia Museum and Fisk University (for Negroes) in Tennessee. To house its share (101 modern paintings, Stieglitz photographs and African sculptures), Fisk remodeled its old gymnasium into a gallery at a cost of $25,000 and named it for a longtime friend of the university, Author Carl Van Vechten (Nigger Heaven, The Tattooed Countess). Last week 900 people got together to celebrate the new gallery's opening...
...Mexico's "boy wonder" artist he came to New York in the '20s and helped Novelist Carl Van Vechten discover Harlem. In the '30s his book on Bali started a vogue that still persists. In his newest book, Mexico South: the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Knopf; $7.50), Artist-Writer Miguel Covarrubias has done it again. His gorgeous portfolio of prose, paintings and photographs, introducing to the U.S. the statuesque beauties of Tehuantepec, should do much to make the isthmus a new fad and a tourist goal...
Last week Fisk was preparing to install a Van Vechten gift, the George Gershwin Memorial Collection of Music and Musical Literature, which may be the South's best musical library. It includes letters (by Gershwin, Puccini, Humperdinck, Gounod, Meyerbeer-but none by Negro musicians), operatic and other scores, U.S. first editions, a vast heap of recordings, bursting scrapbooks of U.S. musical history. All this can hardly fail to seduce white scholars from Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Chapel Hill and Duke Universities...
...Yale another Van Vechten gift, the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of material by and about Negroes, has already been in place two years. It attracts many Negro scholars, has trebled in size since it was installed. It includes the books, manuscripts and photographs which Van Vechten began accumulating while writing Nigger Heaven, the novel which put Harlem on the U.S. cultural map. It includes, too, unique Negro musical material...
White-haired, 63-year-old Carl Van Vechten is as incurable a collector as his own Peter Whiffle. But he usually gives everything away. The New-York Public Library has his boyhood hoard of cigaret pictures. Fastidious, unpredictable Van Vechten does not regret having abandoned musical criticism at 33 (because he thought he was getting too fond of Strauss waltzes to be ,really judicious) or novel writing at 52 (because he had had enough). He is busy with photography, a craft in which he has dabbled since 1895 and of which he is now a top-flight practitioner. His forthcoming...