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Carl Van Vechten, Fania Marinoff, Taylor Gordon – Antique Wall Art

Carl Van Vechten, Fania Marinoff, Taylor Gordon, [1929] — historic drawing
Carl Van Vechten, Fania Marinoff, Taylor Gordon, [1929]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Carl Van Vechten, Fania Marinoff, Taylor Gordon, a historic drawing rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Carl Van Vechten, Fania Marinoff, Taylor Gordon

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Miguel Covarrubias drew this caricature of three figures from the Harlem Renaissance social circle: the writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, his wife, the actress Fania Marinoff, and the singer Taylor Gordon. It appeared as an illustration in Gordon's memoir, *Born to Be*, published in New York by Covici-Friede in 1929. During the late 1920s, Covarrubias, a Mexican artist working in New York, became known for exaggerated portraits of writers, performers and socialites for *Vanity Fair*. His quick, witty line work turns each sitter's features into shorthand, and the drawing records the mix of white patrons and Black artists that defined that scene.

Created / published[1929]
Medium1 drawing.
GenreCaricatures American.Drawings.
NotesMiguel Covarrubias caricatures / by Beverly J. Cox and Denna Jones Anderson. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. (DLC/PP-1976:R2.31) Published in: Born to be / Taylor Gordon. New York : Covici-Friede, 1929. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.
SubjectsVan Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964. Gordon, Taylor,--1893-1971.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,160 × 1,447 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219431

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