Wallace Stevens, Hartford, CT
PhotographerPhotographed by
Rosalie Thorne McKenna
American, 1918 - 2003
Date1952
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print dry mounted on mat board
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 9 3/4 x 6 15/16in. (24.8 x 17.6cm)
Sheet (height x width): 9 3/4 x 6 15/16in. (24.8 x 17.6cm)
Mount (height x width): 9 3/4 x 6 15/16in. (24.8 x 17.6cm)
Sheet (height x width): 9 3/4 x 6 15/16in. (24.8 x 17.6cm)
Mount (height x width): 9 3/4 x 6 15/16in. (24.8 x 17.6cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation
DescriptionPortrait of a man wearing a suit. He is standing in front of a building with his left hand resting on a concrete wall. He is looking off to the left into the distance.
Object number2011.344.1127
Copyright© The Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation
MarkingsVerso of mount, center, stamped in brown ink: "Photo By: / ROLLIE McKENNA / ONE HANCOX [illegible] / STONINGTON [illegible] / AREA CODE 203 [illegible] 126 / Not To Be [illegible] / Without P[illegible] / Please Credit [illegible]Bottom right, stamped in black ink: "TOD GALLERY / Custom Framing / 163 Water Street / Stonington, Ct. 06378 / Phone (203) 535-2010"InscribedVerso of mount, top, in black marker: "WALLACE STEVENS / HARTFORD CT 1953? ["3" crossed out in pencil] / 1952 [pencil]"NotesSubject Note: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) was an American Modernist poet and insurance executive. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and educated at Harvard University and the New York Law School. In 1916, he joined the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived for the rest of his life. He started writing poetry late in life; it wasn't until 1923 that his first book of poems was published. Stevens won the National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1951 and 1955, and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1955.
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