Portrait Photograph of Richard Wright

by Richard Wright, Carl Van Vechten

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Gelatin silver print. Half length studio portrait of the author, seated before backdrop. 1 vols. 35 x 27.5 cm. 13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches . Atelier stamp on verso, and pencil notes giving the date of the session, name of sitter, Van Vechten's id number x p .0 . Minor smudges on verso. Item #220932 Taken in the period between Wright's first success with UNCLE TOM'S CHILDREN 1938 , and his leap to fame with NATIVE SON 1940 .

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