Opie Read as a golf sage – Vintage Wall Art
![Opie Read as a golf sage, [between 1920? and 1939] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/83/83cbeb1cbb96-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Opie Read as a golf sage in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Opie Read as a golf sage
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Opie Percival Read (1852-1939) was a newspaper editor and prolific novelist from Tennessee and Illinois, best known for his humorous stories of small-town and rural American life. In this portrait he appears as a golf sage, a playful framing that points to his later years, when he was widely known as a genial public figure. The cigar in the picture ties to the subject tags on the record, which mark smoking as part of how the image was staged and read. Portraits of writers posed with a cigar and a golf club were a common way of presenting authors as relaxed and approachable in the 1920s and 1930s.
| Created / published | [between 1920? and 1939] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portraits 1920-1940.Photographic prints 1920-1940. |
| Notes | No. CH55092. |
| Subjects | Read, Opie Percival,--1852-1939. Smoking--1920-1940. Cigars--1920-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,255 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181874 |
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