Friday, February 24, 2012

George S. Schuyler: Portraits of the Writer and His Family

 

Schuyler as a relatively young man, circa 1930


 

Black No More 1989 cover


 

Black Empire cover


 

George Schuyler, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1941


 

The Schuylers at home in Harlem, 1946, photo shot by Carl Van Vechten

 

Parents kissing Phillipa after a piano recital, mid-to-late 1940s


 

The Schuylers' daughter, Philippa, circa 1950


 

The photograph that accompanied the aging Schuyler's Courier columns, in his last years with the newspaper, when he was in his late sixties and early seventies. Although his hair was white in the phograph, it was an old picture, probably from when he was in his fifties.

 

George S. Schuyler, in a radio studio in his sixties