Carl Van Vechten, September 14, 1922

Carl Van Vechten was an author and photographer. He married Fania Marinoff in 1914 and the couple played a prominant role in the bohemian and artistic life of New York, particularly in the Harlem Renaissance. They hosted parties and salons that included Gertrude Stein, Eugene O'Neill, Georgi O'Keeffe, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Ethel Waters, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, and luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten and Fania Marinoff continued to entertain a large circle of friends in the arts unil his death in 1964.