HUGHES, Langston - VAN VECHTEN, Carl.

£2,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Portrait photograph together with autograph slip. Fine portrait of the great writer - the image used for his entry in American National Biography - captured by Van Vechten in 1936, here attractively presented with an autographed slip. The intriguing background to the portrait was created by Van Vechten as a "pastiche of clippings from newspapers all over the country" (Bernard)."It was arts patron Carl Van Vechten who gave Hughes's career its biggest boost in the white world by taking Hughes's first book to Knopf and establishing contacts for Hughes that would serve him personally and professionally... the two remained friends until Van Vechten's death in 1964" (ANB).

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