1940s

Joe Louis, Greenwood Lake, NY, 1941, photo by Carl Van Vechten . 'I was born in a sharecropper's tumbledown shack...

Scrabble inventor Alfred Butts & promoter James Brunot posed with oversized game, 1953 . Alfred Mosher Butts (1899 – 1993)...

Beryl Markham, West with the Night, 1942 Beryl...

Denton Welch, 1915-1948 Denton Welch, A Voice Through a Cloud,...

Yvan Attal, Chess Playing, 1928 . “In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for...

J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew, 1948 ( Good Housekeeping Magazine) . "A few weeks later, in July of 1936,...

Ryan Gander, Prepared for slowness, 2018 . “Her kimono stood out from her neck,and her back and shoulders were like...

Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Event,1975 “I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.” Stendhal, The Life of...

Tove Jansson, Set design sketch for the "Comet in Moominland '' play, 1949 . “The star we're looking for isn't...

Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary, 1953 Virginia Woolf , Three...