Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964)

Stettheimer, Florine (1871-1944)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1922

Height:

77.5 cm  (30 1/2 in.)

Width:

66.0 cm  (26 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Portrait of American writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten surrounded by many items related to his life and career, including an upright piano.

People as subjects

Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964) (Non-musician/dancer)

Iconclass

61B2(CARL VAN VECHTEN)
historical person (CARL VAN VECHTEN)
48C93
portrait of a writer
48C7333
pianoforte
48C613
portrait, self-portrait of photographer

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Upright pianoforte [2311]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Althaus, Karin, Matthias Muhling and Susanne Boller. Florine Stettheimer: exhibition catalogue (Munich: Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, 2014) 129, fig. 78.

Brown, Stephen, et al. Florine Stettheimer painting poetry: exhibition catalogue (New Haven: Jens Hoffman, 2017) 31.

Notes

Transfer from Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Gift of Fania Marinoff to the Carl Van Vechten Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature

RIdIM record id

6084