Brushes with the Literary: Portraits by Washington Artist Marcella Comes Winslow
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Self-Portrait with Randolph, Marcella Comès Winslow, 1905 - 2000, Owner: Private collection, National Portrait Gallery
August 13, 1993 – December 5, 1993
National Portrait Gallery
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
1st Floor, Galleries 108 & 109
Portraits of famous writers give an insider's view of life in the nation's capital in the 1940s-50s when Marcella Comes Winslow's Georgetown home was an informal literary salon for such authors as Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Penn Warren, and Eudora Welty.