Marianne Moore
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
The modernist poet Marianne Moore is readily recognizable here by her slender face and neck, her elongated fingers, and her signature mannish dress. Notwithstanding the reductive and linear approach to form in this portrait, it crackles with personality, conveyed through the artist’s use of expressive lines and physical distortions, particularly in the hands.
Marguerite Zorach and Moore were both involved in New York City’s vanguard cultural circles and admired each other’s works. Zorach’s richly colored paintings and embroideries served as the source of inspiration for Moore’s poem “In the Days of Prismatic Color” (1923).
Caption
Marguerite Thompson Zorach American, 1887–1968. Marianne Moore, ca. 1925. Graphite on beige colored, medium weight, smooth, wove paper, Sheet: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Tessim Zorach, 80.87. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 80.87_IMLS_PS3.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Marianne Moore
Date
ca. 1925
Medium
Graphite on beige colored, medium weight, smooth, wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Signatures
Unsigned
Inscriptions
On verso, inscribed in blue ball-point pen, lower right: "H-327"
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Tessim Zorach
Accession Number
80.87
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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