Soprano Gloria Davy, photographed by Carl Van Vechten on February 22, 1958, in character as Aida. A few days earlier, on February 12, she was the first African American to sing the famous role at The Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
“I was a fly chick when I was young.” ~ The artist Ladybird Cleveland (now Strickland) to a reporter in 2012 in a story about an exhibition of her paintings. Ms. Strickland, the mother of legendary fashion model Pat Cleveland, was photographed here by Carl Van Vechten on September 21, 1954. Photo: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
My aunt, Margaret Tynes, with a poster for her performance in Russia in September 1959. She was photographed by Carl Van Vechten who photographed her many times.
Margaret Tynes by Carl Van Vechten. She had a phenomenal international career as a singer in opera, jazz and theater for over fifty years. A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University (BA 1939) and Columbia University (MA 1944), she starred as Harry Belafonte’s leading lady off-Broadway in a show he produced called Sing Man, Sing! She also recorded a jazz suite called A Drum is a Woman with Duke Ellington and made several appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. In 1961, she gained international acclaim as Salomé at the Spoleto Festival of the Two Worlds in Italy, where she lived for more than forty years.
Margaret Tynes, 1959
- by Carl Van Vechten
Happy 93rd birthday to my opera singer aunt Margaret Tynes! She had a phenomenal international career as a singer in opera, jazz and theater for over fifty years. A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University (BA 1939) and Columbia University (MA 1944), she starred as Harry Belafonte’s leading lady off-Broadway in a show he produced called Sing Man, Sing! She also recorded a jazz suite called A Drum is a Woman with Duke Ellington and made several appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. In 1961, she gained international acclaim as Salomé at the Spoleto Festival of the Two Worlds in Italy, where she lived for more than forty years. This photo was taken on September 29, 1959 by Carl Van Vechten, who shot her many times. Photo: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Margaret Tynes
Margaret Tynes by Carl Van Vechten, 1959)
Thanks @lascasartoris! —> Margaret Tynes, my lovely aunt, by Carl Van Vechten again, 1959.
(Source: beinecke.library.yale.edu)
