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The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door
Image of a thin door painted blue except for two rectangles in the middle. There are ink signatures covering it.
Artist242 signatories
Year1920–1925
MediumPine, paint, ink
MovementBohemian
Dimensions190 cm × 61 cm (76 in × 24 in)
LocationHarry Ransom Center, Austin, TX

The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door (1920–25) separated the back office from the main area of Frank Shay's Bookshop in Greenwich Village from 1920 until 1925, where it served as an autograph book for nearly two hundred and fifty authors, artists, publishers, poets, and Bohemian creatives. Notable signatories include Upton Sinclair, the Provincetown Players, John Sloan, Susan Glaspell, Theodore Dreiser, Porter Garnett, and Sinclair Lewis. The door has been held in the permanent collections of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin since it was purchased in 1960.[1]

History

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The bookshop door began its provenance at 11 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, in the home of novelist and playwright Floyd Dell. The building was slated for demolition in 1920 when the owner of the bookshop across the street, Frank Shay, spotted the then-bright red door and salvaged it for his office. Much is yet unknown about The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door, including why individuals were chosen to sign it, which way the door originally faced, when exactly the signatures began and ended, or even when it was painted blue.[2]

"It is true that Greenwich Village is an anomaly. To the pseudo-artist it is a Sargasso Sea, a cess-pool of lost effort and alluring but unkept promises. To the sincere student of art or literature it is America's greatest proving ground...in all this great United States it is the only place a person can sport a stocking with a hole in the heel, and an idea. Elsewhere both are taboo."

— Frank Shay, The Greenwich Villager, 1921

Frank Shay's Bookshop

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Frank Shay opened his bookshop in October 1920 at 4 Christopher Street, in what had previously been the Columbia Cafe where John Masefield briefly worked as a bar-back in the mid-1890s.[3] Another portion of the building functioned as an art studio owned by Winold Reiss until 1921, when Shay obtained the space and effectively doubled the size of his bookshop.[4]

Frank Shay's Parnassus on Wheels, image signed by Shay to Christopher Morley, c. 1922.

Until the door was rescued from Floyd Dell's old apartment, Frank Shay's office was separated from the rest of his bookshop by a thin sheet that hung in the doorway.[3] Though Shay himself never admitted it, authors William McFee and Christopher Morley would eventually both write that Frank had taken the door for more privacy as several customers and friends had seen the silhouette of him drinking in his office after the prohibition had outlawed such activity.[5]

The signatures began on the door before Shay even had the chance to repaint it, resulting in the large unpainted areas that remain on the door today. According to Christopher Morley, author Hendrik Willem van Loon was the first to sign the door; doing so spontaneously and accompanying his name with a doodle of a sailing ship.[6] The earliest dated signatures, those of John Van Alstyne Weaver and Porter Garnett, were added on October 17, 1921.[3]

Frank cultivated a creative environment in his bookshop that encouraged publishers, writers, artists, theater directors, actors, cartoonists, illustrators, political activists and more to socialize and gather at his shop. Shay went beyond selling books, going so far as to edit plays for other publishing houses, lecture on the importance of books and bookselling, create a circulating library, and put a great deal of effort into his award-winning window displays.[4] In 1921, inspired by his friend Christopher Morley's 1917 novel Parnassus on Wheels, Shay modified a Ford truck for the purpose of mobile book selling.[7]

Frank Shay's Bookshop stationery, c. 1921, design by Hendrik Willem van Loon.

Frank Shay's Bookshop shelves were lined with popular novels, children's books, socialist pamphlets and avant-garde chapbooks. He placed a particular emphasis on carrying the books of Walt Whitman and Joseph Conrad. Many early 20th-century booksellers expanded their businesses by adding publishing services and Frank Shay was no exception. The bookshop published a poetry magazine titled The Measure, the Salvo series of chapbooks, a local newspaper titled The Greenwich Villager, and numerous books and booklets of poetry, prose, and plays. The bookshop even printed their own set of branded stationery and envelopes.[4] Frank Shay sold his bookshop sometime during the summer of 1924, after his wife (Fern Forrester Shay) gave birth to their daughter Jean. The family moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts shortly after, opening a new bookshop in the Cape Cod area under the same name as the original. The bookshop in New York City appeared as "The Greenwich Village Bookshop" several times before closing permanently approximately a year later. While delivering a lecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1931, author Christopher Morley said "It was too personal, too enchanting, too Bohemian a bookshop to survive indefinitely, but for five or six years it played a very real part in the creative life of New York City."[8]

The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door, side B.

The original building that housed Frank Shay's Bookshop at 4 Christopher Street was demolished and replaced by a modern building sometime around 1960, less than a decade before the creation of the Greenwich Village Historic District would have protected it from destruction.[9]

After the bookshop

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Sinclair Lewis' Greenwich Village Bookshop Door signature, front panel 3.

Creditors acquired the full inventory and contents of the shop sometime during August 1925, as financial circumstances caused the bookshop to close. Shop manager Juliette Koenig noticed that the repossession crew had ignored the door, so she took it off of its hinges and enlisted several writers to bring it back to her apartment.[3] Finding it interesting enough to protect with varnish and store in her house for more than three decades, Juliette Koenig Smith eventually sold the door to the University of Texas at Austin through an art dealer in 1960. At this time the door was accompanied by a list of approximately 25 identified signatures and a letter from Christopher Morley that thanked Juliette for rescuing the door.[2] The original advertisement published in the Saturday Review read:

"Mrs. Frank Leon Smith has a door for sale. On the door are the autographs of about sixty people who in the early Twenties were important, famous, talented, unusual. I'm telling you, this is a fabulous door....Want a door? Ask Mrs. Smith at 321 East 52nd Street, New York 22."

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin responded to the advertisement and purchased the door, subsequently allowing it to remain undisturbed in their collections for over a decade until a graduate student named Anna Lou Ashby discovered it in storage in 1972. While completing the first official research on the door, Ashby was able to identify 25 more signatures including those of Egmont Arens, Albert Boni, Robert Nathan, and Max Liebermann.[3] After Ashby's brief research the door was again returned to storage where it remained for several more decades. The bookshop door was rediscovered again in 2008 and research was quickly organized by Molly Schwartzburg, a curator of literature at the University of Texas at Austin.[1]

The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920–1925

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The Harry Ransom Center mounted The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920–1925 exhibition from September 6, 2011, until January 22, 2012.[10] The exhibition marked the first and thus far only public show to include the bookshop door, with curation headed by Molly Schwartzburg.[7] For the duration of the exhibition The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door was installed in the middle of a gallery, on a custom blue base that exactly matched the color of the door. It was encased in plexiglas and anchored to the ceiling with steel wires for added security.[11]

Peter Lord Templeton Hunt's Greenwich Village Bookshop Door signature and doodle, front panel 3.

Historians at the Harry Ransom Center were able to use online photograph databases and collections in 2010 to prepare for the exhibition, relying on technology that was not available when the university first acquired the door in 1960. Curators educated themselves on twentieth-century penmanship techniques to correctly match signatures on the door to those found on original manuscripts, novels, poems, letters, drawings and more. Their diligence resulted in the identification of more than one hundred and fifty additional signatures.[12]

The physical exhibition ran concurrently with a more in-depth online, virtual exhibit that was still accessible as of 2022.[1] This online exhibit allowed viewers to learn more about each of the identified signatories and their connections to one another. The Harry Ransom Center continues to operate a website highlighting the door's yet unidentified signatures in hopes of using the public's assistance to eventually identify every signature on the door.[13]

In 2012, the Harry Ransom Center was nominated for an Austin Critics' Table award for "Best Museum Exhibition" for their work on The Greenwich Valley Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia exhibition. The Austin Critics' Table awards are a series of longstanding Austin awards that seek to honor those involved in all aspects of the local art scene.[14]

Signatures

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Alexander Popini's Greenwich Village Bookshop Door signature, front panel 2.

Approximately 25 autographs had been identified and connected to their respective owners by the time the University of Texas obtained the door in 1960. As of 2021, only 47 of the 242 total signatures remained unidentified. Two individuals, Laurie York Erskine and Don Marquis, signed the door on two separate occasions, and a handful of signatures are from fictional characters.[15] During research for the 2011 exhibition historians separated the known signatures into five major groups: writing, publishing, visual arts, performance, and social groups. Many names are featured in more than one category, as day jobs overlapped with hobbies and social groups that all intersected at Frank Shay's Bookshop.[16]

A wide selection of those involved in the 1920s literary scene in New York City and beyond signed The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door. Many worked as publishers, librarians, booksellers, and both magazine and book editors. Signatures included in the writing category consist of those of poets, historians, translators, critics, fiction and travel writers, playwrights, humorists, journalists, and screenwriters. Many of the individuals in this category had their writings censored by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an organization that claimed to supervise public morality.[17]

The performance category of signatures includes theater directors, stage actors, those employed in the early film industry, and members of theater troupes like the Provincetown Players and the Washington Square Players. Visual artists who signed The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door included architects, sculptors, cartoonists, photographers, industrial designers, illustrators, typographers and more. Both the Art Students League and the 1913 Armory Show are represented by a handful of signatures.[18]

At least one member of the following social groups signed The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: Skull and Bones, Three Hours for Lunch Club, Algonquin Round Table, and the Bohemian Club. Several politicians, teachers, seafarers, and Greenwich Village business owners also signed the door. Additionally, thirty-two signatures have been identified as belonging to men who served as soldiers or war correspondents in World War I.[19]

Known signatures on The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door[16]
Name Category Occupation(s) Affiliation(s) Notable Work/ Publication(s)
Franklin Abbott Visual arts Architect, illustrator Three Hours for Lunch Club
Achmed Abdullah Writing Screenwriter, translator, fiction writer World War I veteran Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)
Mary Aldis Performance, visual arts Playwright, poet, stage actor Little Theater Movement, little magazines
George William Armis Publishing Bookseller
Sherwood Anderson Writing Critic, novelist, poet, playwright Little magazines The Masses, Marching Men (1917), Horses and Men (1923)
Egmont Arens Publishing, visual arts Publisher, editor, industrial designer Provincetown Players, little magazines KitchenAid Mixer (designer)
Mary Austin Writing Travel writer, playwright, teacher Little Theater Movement
Eugene S. Bagger Writing Translator, historian, journalist
Bardar (Samuel bar Hammurabi Yaqub) Writing Poet, editor, typesetter
Winslow M. Bell Publishing Bookseller Greenwich Village businesses, World War I veteran
William Rose Benet Visual arts, writing Artist, editor, poet, translator, seafarer Three Hours for Lunch Club, World War I veteran Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1942)
Florence Blackstone Social groups Women's suffrage
Paul J. Blackstone
David William Bone Writing Fiction and travel writer, seafarer Three Hours for Lunch Club, World War I veteran (UK)
Albert Boni Publishing Bookseller, editor, publisher Greenwich Village businesses, Little Theater Movement, Washington Square Players, socialism Boni & Liveright
Charles Boni Publishing Bookseller, editor, publisher Greenwich Village businesses, Little Theater Movement, Washington Square Players
Ernest Augustus Boyd Publishing Critic, editor, translator Saturday Review of Literature
Will H. Bradley Visual arts Film director, illustrator
Berton Braley Writing Poet, fiction writer, editor
Max M. Breslow Publishing Bookseller
Heywood Broun Social groups Journalist, politician Algonquin Round Table, socialism The NewsGuild-CWA (founder)
Albert Brush Performance Stage actor, poet Provincetown Players
Arthur Caesar Writing Journalist, playwright, screenwriter World War I veteran His Darker Self (1924), Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Henry Seidel Canby Writing Critic, editor, professor Three Hours for Lunch Club Saturday Review of Literature
Jonathan Cape Publishing Publisher World War I veteran Jonathan Cape
Gene Carr Visual arts Cartoonist, illustrator Little magazines New York Herald, New York World, New York Evening Journal
Oscar Edward Cesare Visual arts Cartoonist, journalist Armory Show of 1913 The Masses
Christine Challenger Visual arts Illustrator
Betty Ross Clarke Performance Stage actor, screen actor If I were King (1920 film), Traveling Salesman (1921 film)
Helen Louise Cohen Writing Critic, editor, teacher
Alta May Coleman Writing Journalist, critic
Seward Collins Publishing Bookseller, publisher
Frank Conroy Performance Stage actor, screen actor, theater director Little Theater Movement, Washington Square Players Grand Hotel (1932 film), The Little Minister (1934 film)
George Cram Cook Performance Stage actor, playwright, teacher, theater director Little Theater Movement, Provincetown Players, socialism
John Cournos Writing Fiction writer, poet, translator The Philadelphia Record
Bosworth Crocker Writing Playwright Provincetown Players, Washington Square Players
J. Vincent Crowne Writing Professor, essayist
Homer Croy Writing Fiction writer, humorist, screenwriter Three Hours for Lunch Club West of the Water Tower (1923)
Mary Carolyn Davies Writing Poet, playwright Little Theater Movement, Provincetown Players, Bohemian Club The Youth's Companion, The Masses
Helena Smith-Dayton Visual arts Illustrator, sculptor, stop-motion animator Society of Illustrators
Fred Erving Dayton Publishing, writing Journalist, playwright, publisher
Floyd Dell Writing Critic, fiction writer, journalist Provincetown Players, little magazines, socialism The Masses
Sam DeWit Social groups, writing Politician, poet, writer Little magazines, socialism
Roy Dickinson Publishing, writing Critic, journalist, editor, publisher World War I veteran Printers' Ink
Charles Divine Writing Journalist, poet, playwright, teacher World War I veteran
Alice Willits Donaldson Visual arts Artist, illustrator
John Dos Passos Writing Critic, editor, fiction writer Little magazines, socialism, World War I veteran The Masses, Three Soldiers (1921), Manhattan Transfer (1925)
Theodore Dreiser Writing Playwright Provincetown Players, socialism Sister Carrie (1900), An American Tragedy (1925)
Joseph Drum Writing Fiction writer, playwright
Robert L. Eaton
Laurie York Erskine Writing Novelist, educator World War I veteran (UK) Solebury School (founder)
Winifred Eward Writing Fiction and travel writer World War I veteran
Henry Guy Fangel Visual arts Illustrator, photographer Good Housekeeping
John Chipman Farrar Publishing Editor, publisher, teacher Skull and Bones, World War I veteran The Bookman; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (founder)
Hugh Ferriss Visual arts Architect, industrial designer, writer Liberty Memorial, Tribune Tower, The Metropolis of Tomorrow (1929)
Arthur Davison Ficke Writing Poet World War I veteran
John Bernard Flannagan Visual arts Cartoonist, sculptor, seafarer Guggenheim Fellowship The Masses
Dwight Franklin Visual arts Sculptor, set designer Treasure Island (1934 film), Buccaneer (1938 film)
James Earle Fraser Visual arts Sculptor, teacher Armory Show of 1913, Art Students League Buffalo nickel, Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt (1939)
Joseph Lewis French Writing Poet
Robert Frothingham Writing Anthologist, journalist, travel writer
Barney Gallant Publishing Bookseller, restaurateur Greenwich Village businesses
Porter Garnett Publishing Editor, librarian, playwright, professor Bohemian Club, Little Theater Movement
Susan Glaspell Performance Playwright, stage actor Little Theater Movement, Provincetown Players, socialism, Washington Square Players Alison's House (1930), Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1931), Trifles (1917)
Montague Glass Writing Humorist, playwright
Joseph Gollomb Writing Journalist, teacher Socialism
Herbert S. Gorman Writing Biographer, editor, journalist New York Post, The New York Times
Stephen Graham Writing Travel Writer Tramping Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker
Dorothy L.A. Grant Publishing Bookseller
Harry Wagstaff Gribble Writing Playwright, screenwriter A Bill of Divorcement (1932 film), All Gummed Up (1947)
William Gropper Visual arts Cartoonist Armory Show of 1913, socialism The Bookman, The Masses
Louise Closser Hale Performance Screen and stage actor, writer Arizona (1900), The Hole in The Wall (1929)
Harry Hansen Writing Historian, journalist World War I reporter Chicago Daily News, New York World
Sadakichi Hartmann Writing Actor, editor, poet, writer
Josephine Herbst Writing Journalist, writer Little magazines, socialism Pity is Not Enough (1933)
John Hermann Writing Fiction writer Socialism Scribner's Magazine
W.E. Hill Visual arts Cartoonist, illustrator This Side of Paradise (1920)
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding Writing Novelist
Robert Cortes Holliday Publishing, writing Bookseller, critic, editor, writer Art Students League, little magazines The Bookman, New York Tribune
Terence Holliday Publishing Bookseller, critic
Guy Holt Publishing Editor, publisher
Holland Hudson Performance Playwright, stage actor Little Theater Movement, Washington Square Players
Peter Lord Templeton Hunt Visual arts Artist World War I veteran
Frank Townsend Hutchens Visual arts Illustrator Art Students League
Lewis Jackson
Norman Jacobsen Visual arts Cartoonist, illustrator Little theater movement, Provincetown Players The Masses
Rutger Bleecker Jewett Publishing Editor, publisher The Masses
Orrick Glenday Johns Writing Journalist, poet Little magazines, socialism
Merle De Vore Johnson Visual arts Cartoonist, illustrator, poet
Jeanne Judson Writing Editor, journalist, novelist Harper's Bazaar
Harry Kemp Performance, writing Playwright, poet, seafarer, stage actor Provincetown Players, tramping, socialism The Masses
Bernice Lesbia Kenyon Writing Editor, poet Scribner's Magazine
John G. Kidd Publishing Bookseller, publisher Provincetown Players
William Albion Kittredge Visual arts Book artist
Eastwood Lane Performance Composer
Lawrence Langner Performance Playwright, theater director Little Theater Movement, Provincetown Players, Washington Square Players
Christian Leden Writing Seafarer, travel writer The New York Times
Courtenay Lemon Social groups Critic, socialist activist Socialism
Sinclair Lewis Writing Critic, editor, novelist, poet Socialism, Three Hours for Lunch Club Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925)
Ludwig Lewisohn Writing Critic, novelist, teacher
Max Liebermann Visual arts Illustrator, printmaker Berlin Secession
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay Visual arts, writing Artist, critic, poet Tramping
Preston Lockwood Writing Journalist, teacher World War I veteran
Hendrick Willem Van Loon Visual arts Humorist, illustrator, teacher The Story of Mankind (1921)
Lingard Loud Writing Editor World War I veteran
Pierre Loving Writing Journalist, translator, writer Little Theater Movement, Provincetown Players, World War I veteran
Orson Lowell Visual arts Cartoonist, illustrator The American Boy
Charles R. Macauley Visual arts Cartoonist, illustrator
Kenneth Macgowan Performance Critic, director, producer Little Theater Movement, Provincetown Players La Cucaracha
Lawton Mackall Writing Critic, humorist Three Hours for Lunch Club
Hector MacQuarrie Publishing, writing Bookseller, writer World War I veteran The Bookman
John Albert Macy Writing Biographer, critic, editor Socialism
Jane Mander Writing Journalist, novelist
Don Marquis Visual arts Cartoonist, illustrator, writer Three Hours for Lunch Club Archy and mehitabel (1927)
H.A. Mathes Visual arts Illustrator
William McFee Writing Novelist, travel writer, seafarer The New York Times
Alexander McKay Publishing Editor, publisher
Hawley McLanahan Visual arts Architect
Charles M. McLean Publishing Bookseller, publisher
Ada Jaffray McVickar Publishing Bookseller
Scudder Midleton Writing Poet World War I veteran Harper's Magazine
George Middleton Performance Playwright Provincetown Players Polly With a Past (1917)
Roy Mitchell Performance Theater director Little Theater Movement
Christopher Morley Writing Journalist, novelist, poet The Baker Street Irregulars, Three Hours for Lunch Club Saturday Review of Literature
Robert Nathan Writing Novelist, screenwriter Portrait of Jennie (1940)
Dudley Nichols Writing Film director, screenwriter World War I veteran Bringing Up Baby (1938), Stagecoach (1939)
Robert Nichols Writing Poet, playwright World War I veteran
Charles Norman Writing Poet, seafarer
Joseph Jefferson O'Neil Writing Journalist
Ivan Opffer Visual arts Portraitist The Bookman
Martha Ostenso Visual arts, writing Artist, poet, screenwriter Wild Geese (1925)
Lou Paley Writing Poet, teacher
Edmund Lester Pearson Writing Editor, librarian, true crime author
Basil H. Pillard Social groups Teacher
Ethel McClellan Plumer Visual arts Cartoonist, illustrator Society of Illustrators, women's suffrage The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue
Alexander Popini Visual arts Illustrator Little magazines, World War I veteran The Masses
William MacLeod Raine Writing Historian, novelist
Ben Ray Redman Writing Critic, editor, writer Saturday Review of Literature
Charles J. Reed Social groups Restaurateur Greenwich Village businesses
Lola Ridge Social groups, writing Editor, poet Guggenheim Fellowship, little magazines, socialism, women's suffrage The Masses
Felix Rieseberg Writing Explorer, journalist, travel writer Three Hours for Lunch Club East Side, West Side (1927)
W. Adolphe Roberts Writing Journalist, novelist, travel writer Hearts International Magazine
Edwin Arlington Robinson Writing Playwright, poet Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1922, 1925, 1928)
Edwin (Ted) Meade Robinson Writing Humorist, journalist, poet
Bruce Rogers Visual arts Book designer, illustrator, typographer Centaur (typeface)
L. Stuart Rose Publishing Critic, editor, publisher World War I veteran The Saturday Evening Post (editor)
Herb Roth Visual arts Cartoonist, illustrator New York World
Edward Royce Performance Theater director
Tony Sarg Performance, visual arts Illustrator, puppeteer, stage actor Armory Show of 1913 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (balloon designer, 1927)
Jacob Salwyn Schapiro Writing Historian, teacher Socialism
Walter Schnackenberg Visual arts Illustrator
Thomas Seltzer Writing Editor, journalist, translator Little magazines The Masses
Fern Forrester Shay Visual arts Illustrator
Margaret Caldwell Shotwell Writing Poet Publishers Weekly
Emil Siebern Visual arts Sculptor, teacher
Upton Sinclair Writing Journalist, novelist Socialism The Jungle (1906), The Brass Check (1919), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1943)
John Sloan Visual arts Painter Armory Show of 1913, Art Students League, Ashcan School, socialism The Masses
Thorne Smith Writing Humorist, poet, seafarer World War I veteran
David Tosh Smith Social groups Seafarer World War I veteran
Robert A. Smith Social groups Seafarer World War I veteran
Charles Somerville Visual arts, writing Illustrator, journalist
Vincent Starett Writing Journalist, poet, teacher, writer The Baker Street Irregulars, Three Hours for Lunch Club Saturday Review of Literature
Vilhjalmur Stefansson Writing Explorer, seafarer, travel writer
Donald Ogden Stewart Writing Humorist, novelist, screenwriter Algonquin Round Table, Skull and Bones, socialism The Philadelphia Story (1940 film)
Gordon Stiles Writing Fiction writer, journalist World War I veteran
Emily Strunsky Social groups
Genevieve Taggard Writing Editor, poet, teacher Little magazines, socialism The Masses
Gardner Teall Visual arts Illustrator
Sara Teasdale Writing Novelist, poet Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1918)
Lloyd M. Thomas Performance Provincetown Players, World War I veteran
Basil Thompson Writing Editor, poet Little magazines
Paul Thompson Visual arts, writing Journalist, photographer World War I reporter
Helen Thurlow Visual arts Illustrator Women's Home Companion, Vogue
Adolph Treidler Visual arts Illustrator Society of Illustrators The Saturday Evening Post
Peter Underhill
Harvey P. Vaughn Publishing Publisher Greenwich Village businesses
Walter Vodges Writing Critic, journalist Los Angeles Times
Charles A. Voight Visual arts Cartoonist, illustrator Boston Traveler, Life, New York World
Mary Heaton Vorse Visual arts, writing Journalist, novelist, union organizer Art Students League, Provincetown Players, socialism, women's suffrage The Masses
Webb Waldron Writing Editor, journalist World War I reporter Esquire, Reader's Digest
John Leeming Walker Social groups Medical doctor, seafarer Three Hours for Lunch Club
Foster Ware Writing Journalist New York Evening Post, The New Yorker
John V. A. Weaver Writing Journalist, poet, screenwriter Algonquin Round Table, World War I veteran Chicago Daily News, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film)
Luther E. Widen Publishing, visual arts Book designer, publisher, typographer Little magazines, socialism
Edward Arthur Wilson Visual arts Illustrator, mystic, seafarer
Lily Winner Performance Critic, playwright Women's suffrage Birth Control Review
Robert L. Wolf Writing Journalist, poet, writer Little magazines, socialism The Masses
Cuthbert Wright Writing Critic, poet, professor The New York Times, Commonweal
Zorach Performance, visual arts Artist Armory Show of 1913, Art Students League, little magazines, Provincetown Players
Theodore F. Zucker Social groups Professor, researcher

See also

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References

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