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I found this JPEG years ago on the website of Forest J. Ackerman's publishing company, Sense of Wonder Press.
It was originally taken at a convention around 1954 — Van is wearing the silvery futuristic suit that so impressed Philip K. Dick when he met him there. It was from this meeting that Dick chose van Vogt (mixed in with a dash of Robert A. Heinlein) to be the basis for the novelist character in his 1962 Hugo Award-winning novel The Man in the High Castle. (Thanks to Michael McKinney for identifying this picture.)
This is my favorite picture of Van. It was also the first picture of him I ever saw (on page 163 of James Gunn's Alternate Worlds, an illustrated history of the SF genre), and it's a very good one. He's not posing, giving a false smile at the camera — rather he is in action, clearly discussing something very interesting.