Candace Alig Van Alen

1960

Candace Van Alen worked in public relations and journalism, starting her career at a 1945 United Nations Meeting in San Francisco. She was a war correspondent for the International News Service before accepting a job as an editorial writer while assisting the editor and publisher of the New York Herald in 1947. She also wrote articles on Africa for the North American Newspaper Alliance and was contributing editor for Vogue magazine and a columnist for the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune. She married James Van Alen in 1948 and they wrote a weekly tennis column, "Between the Lines," for a group of papers. The two founded the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport in 1954.

oil paint on canvas

image: 35 1/2 x 28 in. (90.2 x 71.1 cm)

Gift of the estate of Candace Van Alen

PA.147