Object number1987.53.59
Thornton Wilder
Date1951
Artist
Rosalie Thorne McKenna
(American, 1918-2003)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (32 x 19 cm)
Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 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)
InscribedOn verso, by artist, upper center in pencil: Thornton Wilder; in ink: 1951; possibly by artist, center in pencil: II #6; by unidentified hand, lower center in ink: THORTON WILDER; right edge in pencil [within blue stamped circle and scribbled out]: 92 1/2P; [within NEG. field stamp] 1012; [within POS. field stamp] 1016; lower center [scribbled out]: 1 Neg / 1 Pos / 1 Pos / 12 7/8 [right arrow] 13 ½ / 7 ½ [right arrow] 10 ¼; lower center edge in pencil [within Esquire stamp, scribbled out]; March ’57 / [JOB No.] H 305 / [PAGE] 3/2 / [COLOR] Blk; lower right corner in pencil: 1 [circled] / 87.53.59
MarkingsOn verso, stamped upper center: Photo By: / ROLLIE MCKENNA / ONE HANCOX STREET / STONINGTON, CONN. / AREA CODE 203 533-0110 / Not To Be Reproduced / Without Permission / Please Credit With Photo; stamped upper right; © Rollie Mc Kenna; stamped center [crossed out]: PHOTO BY: / ROLLIE MCKENNA / 438 EAST 88 STREET / NEW YORK 28, N. Y. / TEL. ENRIGHT 9-3889 / Not To Be Reproduced / Without Permission. / Please Credit With Photo; stamped lower center: ASMP MEMBER / AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHERS; blue circle stamp and blue stamp lower right edge; NEG. / FOTO / STRIP / RET / OPAK / OK'D / POS / FOTO / RET; stamped lower center edge in red: ESQUIRE / JOB No. PAGE / COLOR
On printed label, on verso upper right: © Rollie McKenna / 1 Hancox Street / Stonington, CT 06378 / (203) 535-0110/2126
BibliographyRosalie Thorne McKenna, Rollie McKenna: A Life in Photography (New York: Knopf, 1991), 153.
“Free-Wheeling Portraiture,” Popular Photography (November 1960 edition), page unknown. ProvenanceGift of the artistExhibition HistoryShooting Southern: Women Photographers Past and Present, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, April 30, 2010 - July 18, 2010
DescriptionClose-up of face of man with dark rimmed glasses and left index finger to mouth
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