Pour jouer au château de cartes - four paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, circa 1735-37

 

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The last painting was also produced as an engraving. And, as is frequently the case when copying a painting as a print, the resulting image is reversed.

You wrongly mock this adolescent

And his useless work,

Ready to fall at the first wind

You old fogeys, at the very age when one ought to be wise,

From your brains frequently emerge

Far more ridiculous castles

Cor, Vincent's other brother - three photographs of Cornelis van Gogh

 

Cornelis "Cor" van Gogh
(17 May 1867, Zundert, The Netherlands - 14 April 1900, Brandfort, now Winnie Mandela, South Africa), younger brother of Vincent van Gogh, and third son and youngest of his parent's six children. I've been able to find little about his earliest life, but he apprenticed at an engineering factory, and then worked manufacturing steam boilers and locomotives. In 1887 he traveled to Lincoln in England, where he spent two years at the same occupation. 

But in 1889 at the age of twenty-two, he travelled to South Africa to work in the gold-mining industry in the Transvaal Republic and to build locomotives and harvesters for the Netherlands-South African Locomotive Company. In 1899, he joined the Boer forces to fight the British. Six months into the Second Boer War, aka the Anglo-Boer War, he was wounded and, a few weeks later, died in a military hospital at the age of thirty-two. His grave is unmarked.

There are conflicting stories about his death. Some sources say he was killed in action, others claim that he was hospitalized with debilitating bouts of fever. And I've even read that, while in hospital, he took his own life, shooting himself. 

The legend and the obscure - figures from the Harlem Renaissance and others by Winold Reiss, 1924-25

 

W. E. B. Du Bois, sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist.

Mary Mcleod Bethune, educator, philanthropist, and civil and women's rights activist.

Jean Toomer, poet and novelist.

Zora Neale Hurston, writer and anthropologist.

Alain Leroy Locke, writer, philosopher, and educator. 

 Charles Spurgeon Johnson, sociologist and college administrator.

"Harlem Girl, I."

Paul Robeson, singer, actor, and activist.

Robert Russa Moton, educator and author.

"Two Public School Teachers."

"A College Lad." This is a portrait of Harold Jackman, British-born educator, model, and patron of the arts..

James Weldon Johnson, writer and civil rights activist.

"Girl with Blanket."

Roland Hayes, singer and composer.

Robert Nathaniel Dett, Canadian-American composer, pianist/organist, and choral director.

Sari Price Patton, the hostess at a popular salon run by patron of the arts and Harlem Renaissance fixture A’Lelia Walker. Patton was, apparently, also an embezzler.

Countee Cullen, poet, novelist, and playwright.

"The Librarian."

A second portrait of Alain Leroy Locke, writer, philosopher, and educator.

Elise J. McDougald, educator, writer, and activist.

"Harlem Boy."

"The Actress."

 Langston Hughes, poet, novelist, playwright, activist, and columnist.