Object number1987.53.2

Dylan Thomas gets Ace of Spades playing cards with friends at Brown's Hotel in Laugharne, Wales

Date1953

Artist Rosalie Thorne McKenna (American, 1918-2003)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 5 1/8 x 7 1/2 in. (13 x 19 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 9 7/16 in. (19 x 24 cm)
Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of the artist

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by artist, center in ink: Dylan Thomas gets the ace of spades / playing cards with friends at Brown's Hotel / in Laugharne, Wales 1953; by unidentified hand, upper left in red ink: IX; lower right corner in pencil: 87.53.2

MarkingsOn label, upper center: © Rollie McKenna, Photographer / 1 Hancox Street / Stonington, CT 06378 / (203) 535-0110/2126

BibliographyVariant: Rollie McKenna, Portrait of Dylan, A Photographer's Memoir (Stemmer House, 1982), 36. ProvenanceGift of the artist

Vassar Exhibitions

Second Sight: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object

Exhibition HistorySecond Sight: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 14 - April 10, 2005

Playing Cards in the Project Gallery, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, June 1 - August 31, 2014
DescriptionPartial view of a man in a suit seated at a table playing cards

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