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CARL VAN VECHTEN (1880-1964) Male nude with arms raised (Allen Meadows) * Male nude in forest (Hugh Laing). Together, 2 oversized silver prints, the images measuring 13 7/8x10 7/8 inches (35.3x27.7 cm.), each with a caption, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1936
Laing and Meadows were both prominent dancers and performers in New York City.
Hugh Laing appears as Untitled Fig. 36, and several variant images of Allen Meadows (such as Figs. 23 and 24) appear in James Smalls' The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts (Temple University Press, 2006).
