Portrait photograph of Theodore Dreiser

New York, 1932. Vintage gelatin silver print. Verso docketed in ink giving the name of the sitter, date of the photograph, and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print ("XV e:2"). 1 vols. 14 x 8-3/4 inches. Matted and framed. Vintage gelatin silver print. Verso docketed in ink giving the name of the sitter, date of the photograph, and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print ("XV e:2"). 1 vols. 14 x 8-3/4 inches. Variant of the print published in Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and (truncated) the compiler of Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978) (Inventory #: 218824)