Elaine de Kooning, Frank O'Hara and Franz Kline
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Object Details
- Date
- May 20, 1957
- Artist
- Arthur Swoger, 23 Sept 1912 - 16 Mar 2000
- Sitter
- Elaine de Kooning, 12 Mar 1918 - 1 Feb 1989
- Frank O'Hara, 27 Jun 1926 - 25 Jul 1966
- Franz Kline, 23 May 1910 - 13 May 1962
- Exhibition Label
- During the 1950s, when New York City became the center of the art world, the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village was the preferred meeting spot for the city’s avant-garde artists, writers, and musicians. The artist Elaine de Kooning was at the very heart of it; although, later in life, she noted that she “didn’t know then that I had somehow made my way to the red-hot center.” New York was indeed a cultural capital. This photograph depicts de Kooning at a café table with two good friends, the poet Frank O’Hara (left) and the painter Franz Kline (right). O’Hara appears to react to something de Kooning has said, as he lifts his right hand up against his cheek.
- En la década de 1950, cuando Nueva York se convirtió en el centro del arte, el bar Cedar Tavern de Greenwich Village era el lugar preferido de encuentro para los artistas, escritores y músicos de vanguardia. La pintora Elaine de Kooning estuvo en medio de todo, aunque más tarde comentaría que “en ese momento no sabía que había logrado llegar al centro candente de la acción”. Nueva York era, en efecto, una capital cultural. En esta foto aparece De Kooning en una mesa con dos buenos amigos, el poeta Frank O’Hara (izquierda) y el pintor Franz Kline (derecha). O’Hara parece reaccionar a algo que ha dicho De Kooning mientras se lleva la mano derecha a la mejilla.
- Place
- United States\New York\Kings\New York
- Topic
- Interior
- Home Furnishings\Drinking vessel\Glass
- Equipment\Smoking Implements\Cigarette
- Equipment\Smoking Implements\Ashtray
- Baggage & Luggage\Bag\Purse
- Franz Kline: Male
- Franz Kline: Visual Arts\Artist\Painter
- Franz Kline: Visual Arts\Artist\Abstract Expressionist
- Elaine de Kooning: Female
- Elaine de Kooning: Visual Arts\Artist\Painter
- Frank O'Hara: Male
- Frank O'Hara: Literature\Writer\Poet
- Frank O'Hara: Journalism and Media\Magazine editor
- Frank O'Hara: Literature\Writer\Playwright
- Frank O'Hara: Visual Arts\Curator
- Portrait
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Object number
- NPG.2002.100
- Type
- Photograph
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Estate of Arthur Swoger
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/Sheet: 19.7 x 18.9cm (7 3/4 x 7 7/16")
- Metadata Usage
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2002.100