Marianne Moore and Her Mother
Object Details
- Date
- 1925
- 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 likely took place in 1925.
- Provenance
- (Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.); purchased 1987
- Topic
- Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair
- Mary Warner Moore: Female
- Marianne Moore: Female
- Marianne Moore: Literature\Writer\Poet
- Marianne Moore: Journalism and Media\Editor
- Marianne Moore: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Teacher
- Marianne Moore: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Librarian
- Marianne Moore: Pulitzer Prize
- Portrait
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- 20th Century Americans: 1900-1930 (re-installation 2012)
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 322
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Object number
- NPG.87.217
- Type
- Painting
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © The Zorach Collection, LLC
- 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")
- Metadata Usage
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.87.217
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