Object Details
- Artist
- Marguerite Thompson Zorach, 25 Sep 1887 - 27 Jun 1968
- Sitter
- Marianne Moore, 15 Nov 1887 - 5 Feb 1972
- Mary Warner Moore, 1862 - 1947
- Exhibition Label
- Born Kirkwood, Missouri
- Author of more than a dozen volumes of verse, Marianne Moore received virtually every major literary award—including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award—that the United States had to offer. Moore was acclaimed by her contemporaries, including T.S. Eliot, who cited the “original sensibility and alert intelligence” of her poetry. Using unconventional metrical schemes and focusing on such no-nonsense virtues as courage, loyalty, and patience, her innovative and exquisitely crafted verse secured her a leading position among modernist writers.
- This portrait by Marguerite Zorach—Marianne Moore and Her Mother—redolent with the bright fauvist colors and faceted cubist planes that the artist picked up from four years in Paris, records Moore at an important moment in her rise to fame. Moore’s mother played a significant role in her work as an editor. Although the canvas bears a date of 1919, recent
- scholarship suggests that sittings took place in 1925.
- Nacida en Kirkwood, Misuri
- Autora de más de una docena de poemarios, Marianne Moore recibió prácticamente todos los premios literarios importantes que se otorgaban en Estados Unidos (incluidos el Pulitzer y el Premio Nacional del Libro). Moore fue aclamada por contemporáneos como T. S. Eliot, quien citó la “sensibilidad original y la inteligencia alerta” de su poesía. Con patrones métricos poco convencionales y énfasis en virtudes prácticas como la valentía, la lealtad y la paciencia, su poesía innovadora y de exquisita factura le ganó un lugar cimero entre los escritores modernistas.
- Este retrato—Marianne Moore y su madre—realizado por Marguerite Zorach con los vivos colores fauvistas y planos cubistas que absorbió durante sus cuatro años en París, presenta a Moore en un momento importante de su camino hacia la fama. En calidad de editora, su madre desempeñó un papel significativo en la obra de Moore. Aunque el cuadro lleva fecha de 1919, varias investigaciones recientes sugieren que las sesiones con la artista tuvieron lugar en 1925.
- Provenance
- (Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.); purchased 1987
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1925
- Object number
- NPG.87.217
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © The Zorach Collection, LLC
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Stretcher: 102.2 x 77.5 x 3.8cm (40 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/2")
- Frame: 125.4 x 101 x 7.6cm (49 3/8 x 39 3/4 x 3")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- 20th Century Americans: 1900-1930 (re-installation 2012)
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 322
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair
- Mary Warner Moore: Female
- Marianne Moore: Female
- Marianne Moore: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Poet
- Marianne Moore: Arts and Culture\Journalism and Media\Editor
- Marianne Moore: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Teacher
- Marianne Moore: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Librarian
- Marianne Moore: Literary awards\Pulitzer Prize
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.87.217
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4f6f9b00f-fe3f-45f5-a714-4ab321041063
