Edward T. Pollack Rare Books and Fine Prints

CARL VAN VECHTEN: PORTRAITS OF WRITERS

Carl Van Vechten, 1880-1964, was an author, photographer, music and dance critic, who championed modernism in the arts, and was one of the first to bring African-American artists and writers to mainstream attention. He was a close friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, and he and his wife, the Yiddish theater actress Fania Marinoff, provided moral and financial support to Toklas in the late years of her life. He was a prolific photographer both as a professional, taking formal portraits of leading figures in the arts on assignment for magazines, and as an amateur, making informal pictures of his friends. Our exhibition includes 14 images of writers, ranging from the early 1930s into the 1950s. The photos bear Van Vechten's blind-stamp and are annotated on the back with the name of the subject, the date of the photo and with numerical cataloguing numbers.


GERTRUDE STEIN WITH BASKET I & PEPE

ALICE B. TOKLAS AT BILIGNIN

GERTRUDE STEIN AND ALICE B. TOKLAS

W. H. AUDEN

LUIGI PIRANDELLO

EVELYN WAUGH

GERTRUDE STEIN

NORMAN MAILER

EUGENE 0'NEILL

GORE VIDAL

ISAK DINESEN (BARONESS KAREN BLIXEN)

WILLA CATHER

WILLIAM FAULKNER

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
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THE WOODCUT SHOW

Our gallery exhibition for May and June will feature the woodcut, and its close relatives, the wood-engraving and the linoleum cut..


LEAFLESS TREE

TUSCANY IV

THE STORM IS COMING

THE HYDROGEN MAN

MAN OF PEACE

SATURN

CHILDREN AND STILL LIFE

VIEW IN WORCESTER (View of Worcester)

JUNGER CLOWN

ZAUBERKUNSTLER (ERRINERUNG AN PAUL KLEE)

ZWEI VERWUNDETE

DER HIRT MIT DER GROSSEN ZIEGE (THE HERDER WITH THE LARGE GOAT)

FRAU MIT BLUME

SITZENDER HARLEKIN

DIE HIRTEN (SHEPHERDESS)

TIERLEGENDE

TRINKENDES PFERD (DRINKING HORSE)
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MARIO RIVOLI - TATTOO SERIES

This group of six mixed media drawings was suggested by the images in a group of found photographs from the 1960s of tattooed male and female nudes. A copy of the photograph will accompany each drawing in order to illustrate the transformations the artist's skills have brought to each image.


TATTOO SERIES, I: VANITY - STANDING MALE NUDE WITH TATTOOS

TATTOO SERIES, II: STANDING FEMALE NUDE WITH TATTOOS

TATTOO SERIES, III: STANDING FEMALE NUDE WITH TATTOOS-ARMS BEHIND HEAD

TATTOO SERIES, IV: MALE NUDE ON COUCH BEING TATTOOED

TATTOO SERIES, V: FEMALE NUDE BEING TATTOOED ON FACE

TATTOO SERIES, VI: SEATED FEMALE NUDE WITH TATTOOS
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BOSTON PRINT FAIR HIGHLIGHTS

Here are some highlights from among the many prints, drawings and photographs we will have at the Boston Print Fair, May 2-4, 2008 at the Boston Public Library. Details of this show are under the Show Schedule tab above.


WEIBLICHER AKT MIT BREITKREMPIGEM HUT (Female Nude with Broad-Brimmed

NID VERT

CIEL BLEU

[COWBOYS RIDING] PENCIL DRAWING

VIEW IN WORCESTER (View of Worcester)

HELEN AND LILY

SULEIKA (MAUD ARIZONA THE TATTOOED WONDER)

BANJO or MUSIQUE NEGRE

THE STORM IS COMING

GLOUCESTER HARBOR

SEASIDE SKETCHES - A CLAM BAKE

FRATERNITY

BEACH HOUSE

TOD UND FRAU UM DAS KIND RINGEND

BARGE CANAL, HARLEM

APPLE ORCHARD

LE LEZARD AUX PLUMES D'OR - PLATE 4

JOB

TATTOO SERIES, I: VANITY - STANDING MALE NUDE WITH TATTOOS

GARCON SUR UN CHEVRE

GERTRUDE STEIN WITH BASKET I & PEPE

ALICE B. TOKLAS AT BILIGNIN

GERTRUDE STEIN AND ALICE B. TOKLAS

W. H. AUDEN

"DISHWASHERS WANTED" - ORIGINAL DRAWING

SULLIVAN AND JIMMY COLLINS, JOHN L.

SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS

SIGNED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF ORSON WELLES

EARLY MORNING, ROCKPORT, MASSACHUSETTS
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