The gallery is named for Carl Van Vechten (1880 Cedar Rapids, Iowa-1964), a photographer; novelist; art, music and dance critic; biographer; philanthropist; and cultural entrepreneur from the 1920s to the 1960s. Carl Van Vechten was a friend of Fisk President, Dr. Charles Sturgeon Johnson and served as chairman of Fisk's Fine Arts Commission in the 1940s to 1950s.
He was instrumental in orchestrating the gift of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to Fisk University from Georgia O'Keeffe. On permanent exhibition in Gallery 2 is the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of modern American and European art, which includes works by Picasso, Cezanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, O'Keeffe, Demuth, Hartley, Dove and Walkowitz. Gallery 1 features a changing schedule of travelling exhibitions and temporary exhibitions organized by the University Galleries' staff and national and regional arts organizations.
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