- Creator:
- Spingarn, Amy Einstein, 1883-1980, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1930-1935.
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 150
- Container / Volume:
- Box (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Washington Carver (1935) and authors Langston
- Description:
- Amy Einstein Spingarn was born in New York on January 29, 1883, the daughter of American businessman and manufacturer David L. Einstein (1839-1909) and Caroline Fatman Einstein (1852-1910). In 1905 she married Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939), a Columbia University literature professor and a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In addition to being an artist herself, Amy Einstein Spingarn was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and supported the work of many black artists and writers; she also served on the board of directors of the NAACP for nearly forty years. Spingarn died at her home, Troutbeck, in Amenia, New York, on June 25, 1980., Title devised by cataloger., and Captions in English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States.
- Subject (Name):
- Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943, Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, Hurston, Zora Neale, Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, Piquion, René, Schuyler, George S. 1895-1977 (George Samuel),, Spingarn, Amy Einstein, 1883-1980., and Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe, 1904-1975
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Portrait drawings].
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