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—— CURRENTLY ON VIEW —— Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities
The Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities is an on line exhibition featuring
compelling and curious titles and images from the Beinecke Library's
Modern Books and Manuscripts and American Literature collections Exhibition co-curated by Nancy Kuhl and Timothy Young, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts
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Based on Kuhl’s Beinecke Library exhibition of
the same name, this catalog focuses on several loosely defined groups
of women, including communities in Taos, New Mexico, and the American
southwest (highlighting Georgia O’Keeffe and Mabel Dodge Luhan), Harlem
and “outposts” of the Harlem Renaissance such as Chicago and Washington
D.C. (including Zora Neale Hurston, A’Lelia Walker, and Georgia Douglas
Johnson), New York City (considering Neith Boyce Hapgood, Eva Le Gallienne,
Elinor Wylie, and Muriel Draper), the American Midwest (including
Ruth Stephan, Katherine Kuh, Sara Teasdale), and expatriate communities
abroad (highlighting Stein and Toklas, Romaine Brooks, H.D., Josephine
Baker). The exhibition and catalog consider women who have made a
variety of contributions to the arts: editors, patrons, curators,
and partners as well as writers, artists, and performers.
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Based on Kuhl’s Beinecke Library exhibition of the same name, this catalog includes photographs of about 85 women of achievement photographed by Van Vechten between 1932-1964; each photograph is accompanied by a short biography of the subject. The women include some of the best known of Van Vechten's subjects—Gertrude Stein, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston, and Marianne Moore to name a few—and some now-forgotten women who made significant contributions to the Broadway theater community, the Harlem Renaissance, the early Hollywood film industry, and the 1920s and ’30s expatriate communities in Paris and London. The group includes performers of all kinds, writers, journalists, salon hostesses, artists, photographers, social activists, etc. The catalog includes an introduction by Bruce Kellner, a leading Harlem Renaissance scholar and the executor of Van Vechten’s estate.
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BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, YALE UNIVERSITY •
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Documenting Slavery Organzined with the assistance of Jon Sudholt, Y'08 Image: Drawing of slave trading fort Elmina Castle; by Robert Durand, First Lieutenant on the French slave ship Le Diligent, 1731-1732 Exhibition Description and Podcast: Documenting Slavery |
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Image: Bobby Seale, pastel sketch by Robert Templeton
(1971)
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Image: Margaret Anderson, Louise Davidson, and Mme. Georgette
LeBlanc |
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Image: Langston Hughes with neighborhood children at the Children’s Garden |
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Image: Detail from poetry broadside designed in honor of the exhibition |
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Image: Samuel Hollyer engraving of Walt Whitman
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Red Letters / Blacklists: Communism and Literary America
Image: The Masses (New York, v. 7, no.1) |
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Image: Photograph of Clotilde in Sam Robinson’s “We’ve
Got It Co.”
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Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts
Image: Portrait of Mabel Dodge Luhan by Mary Foote |
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Image: Mercedes de Acosta, 8 March 1935 photograph
by Carl Van Vechten
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Literature and Resistance: African-American Voices from the 1960s and 1970s
Image: Imamu Amiri Baraka, Slave Ship: A One Act Play |
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Last updated July 2009
© 2006-09 Nancy Kuhl |