Object Details
Artist
Conrad A. Albrizio, 1894 - 1973
Sitter
Robert Penn Warren, 24 Apr 1905 - 15 Sep 1989
Exhibition Label
Born Guthrie, Kentucky
Robert Penn Warren is one of the most gifted and prolific American authors of the latter twentieth century; his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the King’s Men (1946) is one of the most significant books in American literature. Educated at Vanderbilt, Warren first gained attention as one of the “Agrarians,” a group of conservative southern writers who wanted to slow social change, especially in race relations.
Warren was too progressive for the group and subsequently recanted his early support for racial segregation, becoming an important voice for integration. Warren made the South the theme of his writings, which were voluminous. A major novelist, he was also an important poet, one whose combination of the vernacular and modernism achieved the fusion of the old and the new, which he had attempted to find–unsuccessfully–with the Agrarians. He was twice poet laureate of the United States.
Nacido en Guthrie, Kentucky
Robert Penn Warren es uno de los autores estadounidenses más talentosos y prolíficos de finales del siglo XX. Su novela All the King’s Men (1946), ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, es uno de los libros sobresalientes de la literatura del país. Warren estudió en la Universidad Vanderbilt y se dio a conocer como miembro de los “agraristas”, un grupo de escritores sureños conservadores que deseaban posponer los cambios sociales, sobre todo en cuestiones raciales. Warren resultó demasiado progresista para el grupo y más tarde se retractó de su respaldo inicial a la segregación racial, convirtiéndose en un importante defensor de la integración. Sus escritos, que son voluminosos, tienen por tema el sur estadounidense.
Además de novelista fue un poeta importante que, al combinar lo vernáculo con el modernismo, produjo la fusión de viejas y nuevas formas que no había logrado antes con los agraristas. Fue designado poeta laureado de Estados Unidos.
Provenance
The sitter; gift to NPG 1975
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert Penn Warren
Date
1935
Object number
NPG.75.39
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
81.3 × 75.2 × 2.5 cm (32 × 29 5/8 × 1")
Frame: 97.8 × 93.3 × 6.4 cm (38 1/2 × 36 3/4 × 2 1/2")
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Location
Currently not on view
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Topic
Equipment\Smoking Implements\Pipe
Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie\Necktie
Robert Penn Warren: Male
Robert Penn Warren: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer
Robert Penn Warren: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Professor\University
Robert Penn Warren: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Poet
Robert Penn Warren: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Magazine article writer
Robert Penn Warren: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Novelist
Robert Penn Warren: Arts and Culture\Literature\Literary critic
Robert Penn Warren: Literary awards\Pulitzer Prize
Robert Penn Warren: Civilian awards\Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Record ID
npg_NPG.75.39