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Carl Van Vechten, Van Vechten Trust. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
This article is reprinted from Feb. 13, 2015.
W.E.B. Du Bois’s magisterial book The Souls of Black Folk (1907) has left one particularly clear imprint on American conversations: its description, in the opening chapter “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” of African Americans’ “double consciousness,” their sense of being both within and without American identity, insiders yet outsiders to this national community. Yet in his closing chapter “The Sorrow Songs,” Du Bois frames that relationship quite differently, and in a way that shows Black History Month in a new and important light.
The Dean of Black Classical Music
William Grant Still
By Carl Van Vechten, United States Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division
While listening to WDPG Discover Classical Radio, I heard the program host say that the lovely piece I’d just heard, a work by composer William Grant Still, had been chosen in honor of Black History Month. I am embarrassed to admit that until that moment, I had no idea that Still was black, that he has an Ohio connection, or that his work is deemed to have changed American classical music forever; here is some of what I learned about this amazing man.
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Why were so many Stettheimer art works up for sale? Not all were real
Five works by the dazzling and seldom-seen painter Stettheimer emerged on the market in 2020. But some stood on shaky ground. Florine Stetthemier Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University via The New York Times.
by Susan Mulcahy
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Years can pass without work by the singular modernist Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) appearing on the art market. Her estate went mostly to museums and universities, which made 2020 a banner year, with five pieces popping up at U.S. auction houses and galleries.
Only two turned out to have been actually created by Stettheimer. Of the other works, two were removed from the marketplace, and the attribution changed on the third.