Object Details
- Artist
- Sonya Noskowiak, 25 Nov 1900 - 28 Apr 1975
- Sitter
- John Steinbeck, 27 Feb 1902 - 20 Dec 1968
- Exhibition Label
- In politics, mention of the Great Depression evokes Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal; in painting, it summons up images of federally funded WPA murals depicting the nation's workforce. And in American letters, the work most synonymous with those hard times is The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's best-selling novel portraying the spirit-breaking poverty that overtook so much of the country's rural economy in the wake of prolonged drought and falling crop prices. When the book appeared in 1939, Steinbeck had already tasted popular success with his two novels Tortilla Flat and Of Mice and Men. Grapes of Wrath, however, earned him an acclaim that few American writers have enjoyed. No recent novel, one critic said at its publication, was "better calculated to awaken the humanity of others." In 1962, Steinbeck's literary accomplishments earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1935
- Object number
- NPG.2006.74
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Estate of Sonya Noskowiak
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/Sheet: 22.6 x 19.4cm (8 7/8 x 7 5/8")
- Mat: 55.9 x 40.6cm (22 x 16")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- John Steinbeck: Male
- John Steinbeck: Communications\Journalist\Reporter\Newspaper
- John Steinbeck: Literature\Writer\Novelist
- John Steinbeck: Communications\Journalist\Correspondent
- John Steinbeck: Nobel Prize
- John Steinbeck: Pulitzer Prize
- John Steinbeck: Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2006.74
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4847143f8-4a98-4e5f-92a8-19ab0353517e
