Elisabeth Welch by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Edna Thomas, 1936 Florence Mills by Edward Steichen, 1924 Paul Robeson by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Nina Mae McKinney, 1930
I will be participating in this year’s American Art and Visual Culture Seminar at the Newberry Library in Chicago on Friday, October 4th.
Check it out if you are in the area:
My paper is entitled, “Dark Stars, Bright Ambitions: Black Celebrity in Jazz Age NY/LON” and I will be sharing more of my research from my Harlem-on-Thames project.