Queer Places:
Harvard University (Ivy League), 2 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Central High School, 1700 W Olney Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19141, Stati Uniti
University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PA
Humboldt University of Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germania
Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC 20003, Stati Uniti
Alain Leroy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American
writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished as the
first African-American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Locke was the philosophical
architect —the acknowledged "Dean"— of the Harlem Renaissance.[1]
As a result, popular listings of influential African Americans have repeatedly
included him. On March 19, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
proclaimed: "We're going to let our children know that the only philosophers
that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke
came through the universe."[2]
Once, when interviewed, Richmond Barthé indicated that he was homosexual. Throughout his life, he had occasional romantic relationships that were short-lived.[37] In an undated letter to Alain Locke, he indicated that he desired a long-term relationship with a "Negro friend and a lover". The book Barthé: A Life in Sculpture by Margaret Rose Vandryes links Barthé to writer
Lyle Saxon, to African American art critic
Alain Locke, young sculptor
John Rhoden, and the photographer
Carl Van Vechten. According to a letter from Alain Locke to
Richard Bruce Nugent, Barthé had a romantic relationship with Nugent, a cast member from the production of Porgy & Bess.[38]
Among a long series of young paramours, the one whom Locke assisted most was
Maurice Victor Russell,
introducing him to concerts conducted by Eugene Ormandy, igniting a life-long
appreciation for Classical music, was a fellow Philadelphian.
Locke was gay, and may have encouraged and supported other gay
African-Americans who were part of the Harlem Renaissance.[17]
However, he was not fully public in his orientation[7]
and referred to it as his point of "vulnerable/invulnerability",[6]
taken to mean an area of risk and strength in his view.[6]
by Carl Van Vechten
Lenwood Morris, Portrait of Alain Locke
Oil on masonite board, circa 1900. 406x508 mm; 16x20 inches. Inscribed "L. Morris, Philadelphia" in pencil on the frame back. Alexander McCune frame, Philadelphia, with the label on the backing paper.
Provenance: Maurice Victor Russell, New York and Philadelphia; private collection, New York. This painting was part of Russell's estate, a collection that included artworks given to Russell by Alain Locke, the renowned Howard University professor and philosopher. Part of the same New York literary circle in the late 1940s, Locke became Russell's mentor and confidant.
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