CVV-Lutz_B002_F014

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CVV-Lutz_B002_F014

Title: Proposed James Weldon Johnson Memorial

Creator: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964

Creator: Boatwright Memorial Library (University of Richmond)

Date: 1940

Description: 1 online resource (10 pages)

Type of Resource: text

Location: MS-1, Carl Van Vechten - Mark Lutz Collection, Book Arts, Archives, and Rare Books, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia

Subject: 20th century

Subject: Sculpture, American

Subject: Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938

Subject: Barthé, Richmond, 1901-1989

Note: Plans for a memorial to James Weldon Johnson written by Carl Van Vechten, reprinted from the original in Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life. Van Vechten discusses the selection of Richmond Barthé as sculptor for a commemorative statue to be placed in New York City.

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