Brushes with the literary : letters of a Washington artist, 1943-1959

Author(s)

• Winslow, Marcella Comès

Bibliographic Information

Brushes with the literary : letters of a Washington artist, 1943-1959

Marcella Comès Winslow

（Southern literary studies）

Louisiana State University Press, c1993

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In 1943 the painter Marcella Comes Winslow, who was later to gain an international reputation for her portraits, moved with her two young children to Washington, D.C., to live there until her husband, Colonel Randolph Winslow, returned from the war in Europe. That same year Allen Tate became the consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, and in the years that followed, Washington turned into an increasingly active cultural center. Largely through her friendship with Tate and his wife, the novelist Caroline Gordon, both of whom she had met some years earlier at the Memphis estate of her mother-in-law, Winslow came to know an astonishing array of poets, novelists, and critics, among them W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, John Crowe Ransom, Karl Shapiro, Peter Taylor, Dylan Thomas, Robert Penn Warren, and Eudora Welty. Many ended up sitting for Winslow. Winslow revealed her impressions of those luminaries - and her impressions of much more besides - in frequent letters to her beloved mother-inlaw, Anne Goodwin Winslow, herself a widely read novelist and poet. Those letters, more than two hundred in all, are gathered in Brushes with the Literary. As gifted a correspondent as she was a painter, Winslow wrote letters that sparkle with telling details and shrewd comments about the personalities and activities of her acquaintances, who included not only literary figures but others prominent in the dry's social and political circles. They provide a special insight into life in Washington during the war years, when scarcities and relentless worries about loved ones abroad were made somewhat more bearable by the livelysocial life and small-town charm of the nation's capital. But it is the observations about the writers who became her friends and whose portraits she painted that lend these letters their overriding significance. Through the years we follow Winslow's friendship with the mercuria

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA36249445
• ISBN:
  • 0807117617
• LCCN: 92018920
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baton Rouge
• Pages/Volumes: xxx, 395 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS253.D6
  • DC20 : 810.9/9753
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- Washington (D.C.) -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Authors, American -- Washington (D.C.) -- Friends and associates
  • LCSH : American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Authors, American -- Southern States -- Friends and associates
  • LCSH : Washington (D.C.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Portrait-painters -- United States -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Authors, American -- 20th century -- Portraits
  • LCSH : Winslow, Marcella Comès -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Portrait painting -- Washington (D.C.)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00089438