Object number1987.53.58
Richard Wilbur
Date1957
Artist
Rosalie Thorne McKenna
(American, 1918-2003)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 11/16 x 6 7/16 in. (22.1 x 16.4 cm)
Sheet: 9 x 6 5/8 in. (22.9 x 16.8 cm)
Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm)
Sheet: 9 x 6 5/8 in. (22.9 x 16.8 cm)
Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn verso, initialed center in ink: RMcK
InscribedOn verso, by artist, center in pencil: RW5 / RICHARD WILBUR,; in ink: 1957; by unidentified hand, upper left in red ink: 43%; lower right corner in pencil: 87.53.58
MarkingsOn verso, stamped upper left in red [outlined on threesides]: McGRAW-HILL BOOK CO.; partially obscured stamp upper center: PHOTO BY: / ROLLIE McKENNA / [copyright credit label] / Please Credit With Photo; stamped center: COPYRIGHT
On printed label, on verso upper center: © Rollie McKenna / 1 Hancox Street / Stonington, CT 06378 / (203) 535-0110/2126
On typed label, on verso lower half: RICHARD WILBUR, American Poet / Born in 1921, Richard Wilbur is now teaching at Harvard / University. His two published books of poetry, The / Beautiful Changes [underlined] (1947) and Ceremony [underlined] (1950), met with / critical acclaim. Wilbur has received several notable / poetry prizes, among them the Guggenheim Grant with / which he went to New Mexico for a year of doing nothing / else but writing. Mr. Wilbur also collaborated in / bringing out the new edition of Louis Untermeyer's / anthology of modern poets which was published this year.
BibliographyRosalie Thorne McKenna, Rollie McKenna: A Life in Photography (New York: Knopf, 1991), 254.
John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read, The Modern Poets, An American-British Anthology (McGraw-Hill, 1963), 393. ProvenanceGift of the artistDescriptionYoung man sitting on log in field with dark jacket and cigarette in right hand
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