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[Carson (Smith) McCullers, 1917-1967, half-length portrait, standing, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Carson (Smith) McCullers, 1917-1967, half-length portrait, standing, facing left] — historic photograph
[Carson (Smith) McCullers, 1917-1967, half-length portrait, standing, facing left]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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.)

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[Carson (Smith) McCullers, 1917-1967, half-length portrait, standing, facing left]

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Rather than a camera portrait of the novelist, this is a photograph of a painted likeness of Carson McCullers, shown half-length and standing, turned toward the left. The record attributes the painting to Henry Varnum Poor, an American painter known for his modernist canvases and murals, and dates the picture to about 1946. That was the year her novel *The Member of the Wedding* appeared, a few years after *The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter* (1940) had made her one of the notable Southern writers of her generation. The catalog data is marked as unverified, so the painting's origin and date should be checked against other sources.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1946.
SubjectsG1326 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo of painting by Henry Varnum Poor. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf; PI -- Works; PI; sources checked and other information on back of the card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,035 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129800

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