This Friday’s Afternoon Challenge: 20th century writers and their portraitists!

[CTyankee]

Can you identify both writer and portraitist of each image?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

[virgogal]

1. I think one is Eudora Welty.but know nothing beyond that.

Good luck,folks.

[CTyankee]

35. One is. Which one?

[virgogal]

46. # 5

[virgogal]

64. Is Steichen the photographer ?

[CTyankee]

70. It is a self portrait. Welty was a professional photographer before she was a writer.

She did work for the WPA in the South, photographing black folks in the deep South. There was a recent exhibition of her work in NYC a few years back...

[virgogal]

75. I'll be darned. Thanks.

[XemaSab]

2. Is the first man Steinbeck?

:shrug:

[CTyankee]

3. oooh, no...but sorta same time period, I'm pretty sure...nt

[CTyankee]

4. oooh, no...but sorta same time period, I'm pretty sure...nt

[CTyankee]

5. oooh, no...but sorta same time period, I'm pretty sure...nt

[apocalypsehow]

7. Are you really, really, really sure?

:shrug:


;-)


:hi:

[CTyankee]

9. Well, I got rid of one of 'em....

[XemaSab]

6. And is the last man Bukowski?

:shrug:

[CTyankee]

10. no, I don't know much about Bukowski...

[Hannah Bell]

79. ezra pound, i believe...

[alsame]

8. CTyankee, I just want to tell you that

I never, ever know the answers to these challenges, but I love them! I look forward to them every week because I learn so much. Sadly, I didn't take much art history in college and I've always regretted it, so these weekly lessons are very educational. Thank you for doing this!

[CTyankee]

11. Aww, you're nice! Doncha want to take a guess?

[alsame]

13. Well, is #5 Sylvia Plath?

[CTyankee]

15. No, no Sylvia...

[XemaSab]

12. Are they all Americans?

:shrug:

[CTyankee]

16. no.

[XemaSab]

18. And are they all English language writers?

:shrug:

[CTyankee]

19. No.

[IcyPeas]

14. are 2 of them?

Gertrude Stein?

Virginia Wolff

(don't know who the photographers are though)

[CTyankee]

17. which one?

[IcyPeas]

22. oops

number 2 Gertie
number 5 Virgie

[CTyankee]

26. No. neither....

[sufrommich]

20. Is #3 Dorothy Parker? nt

[CTyankee]

21. #3?

[sufrommich]

24. Sorry, I meant #2.

[CTyankee]

25. Yes. That's amazing...how did you know this? And do you know who did this shot?

[sufrommich]

27. Well, it looks like I would imagine Dorothy Parker would look

when she got older. I have no idea who photographed her,though.

[CTyankee]

29. VERY famous photographer...I'm surprised it's so "ugly" tho....and that's a hint.

[BurtWorm]

30. Avedon?

[CTyankee]

33. Yes, indeed! He of Suzy Parker fame...wouldja believe???

[sufrommich]

31. Richard Avedon? nt

[blogslut]

36. Richard Avedon is the photographer

Your hint was very hinty

[CTyankee]

38. I know. I am too nice.

[Iterate]

23. Well, #5 might be Joyce Carol Oates,

I believe, judging from that oval face, and if so it would be right after her first novel, "A Garden of Earthly Delights". That would then be in the late 1960's and I don't think you could have a portrait taken then without a brick or lath background.

If that much is correct, I'm not sure who would have taken the photograph.

[BurtWorm]

28. No 2. is Dorothy Parker, I think.

And No. 7 is Ezra Pound.

Don't know who did their portraits. Irving Penn for Dorothy Parker?

[CTyankee]

32. Poor old Ezra, at last! Take a guess on his portraitist? REALLY famous (and for good reason)!!!

Also, it was not Penn, but a contemporary who did the Parker image...but also REALLY famous...

[BurtWorm]

39. Avedon.

Or Arbus?

I have to think about Pound.

[CTyankee]

45. No Arbus. The photographer is probably the best of the 20th century...

[Staph]

53. Ezra Pound

was photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the early adopters of 35mm photography.

[CTyankee]

60. Excellent, Staph!

[BurtWorm]

34. #1. TS Eliot? #3. Virginia Woolf?

#5. Carson McCullers?

[CTyankee]

37. Yes on 3. No on Eliot and McCullers.

Do you know the artist for #3?

[BurtWorm]

40. #.1 Maughm?

The circles and lines = Beckett maybe? Or Joyce?

[CTyankee]

42. Which one? and who was the artist?

[BurtWorm]

44. W. Somerset Maughm

I have to think more about who the artist might be.

[CTyankee]

47. No to Maughm...I don't know if there really IS a link between writer and artist...

[Staph]

50. The Virginia Woolf (#3)

was done by Vanessa Bell -- one of the Bloomsbury group and Virginia Woolf's sister!

(Thank heavens for Google Images and Wikipedia!)

[CTyankee]

62. Yep. In a way it's too bad, but it does get more info out to people...

[CTyankee]

41. I know ya'll are bummed by #4. But think of the time period...

who was drawing/painting? What schools of art were flourishing? Wouldn't one of them "do" a famous writer in their midst?

[BurtWorm]

43. Gertrude Stein?

[CTyankee]

49. Nooo...

[Iterate]

52. No, I've seen #4 but can't quite bring it to mind, and can't quite

remember the story.

Henri Cartier-Bresson was the photographer of Ezra Pound in #7.

[librechik]

65. is it Gertrude Stein (and Alice B) by Picasso?

and I said I wouldn't guess again

[LawnLover]

48. Which one of them wrote Twilight? nt

[CTyankee]

54. I thought you knew!

[librechik]

51. I know 2 is Dorothy Parker, I'm Guessing Ezra Pound on 7, Eudora Welty on 5 and

Dos Passos on 6, don't have a clue on the portraitists...

you are tough cookie

[CTyankee]

56. You've got Parker, Pound and Welty but no on Dos Passos...right era, tho!

[librechik]

57. ok, new guess: James Jones, not Dos Passos

[CTyankee]

59. James Jones? The WWII author? No...is that who you mean?

[librechik]

61. yeah, but that was my last guess

great quizzes every week, CTY!

[CTyankee]

63. Well, here's a hint: the writer was a casualty of war...

[Hannah Bell]

81. siegfried sassoon?

[CTyankee]

83. Hey, great to see you here Hannah!

AS you can see from the rest of the thread, it is a portrait of the Spanish poet Garcia Lorca, who was actually singled out and shot in a field when taken prisoner. Sad thing...like Seigfried Sassoon...tragic.

Please join us again...

[IcyPeas]

55. no hint on #4 I suppose :-)

[CTyankee]

58. See my #41 post...think of the era...nt

[alsame]

66. Is #1 ee cummings?

[CTyankee]

69. Alsame, you are wonderful! You got the last hold out!

Brava! It is cummings! Who did it?

[alsame]

71. Woo hoo, I finally got one! It was really just a wild guess, I've seen

pictures of cummings and it looked vaguely familiar. I have no idea who did it.

#6 was driving me crazy too, because I recognized the face but couldn't come up with a name.

This was fun - thanks!

[CTyankee]

74. As you can see, it is Lorca....

More fun next week, same time...

on edit: BTW, did you get Lorca because of my hint: casualty of war?

[alsame]

76. Nope, I couldn't get Lorca even with the hint. But I saw the

answer below :)

[Jamastiene]

67. My attempts:

This is tough.

1.
2. Dorothy Parker, Richard Avedon
3. Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell
4. James Joyce, Constantin Brancusi
5. Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty
6. Federico García Lorca, Robert Capa David Seymour
7. Ezra Pound, Henri Cartier-Bresson

Those are my best guesses. I cannot get 1 no matter how hard I try.

[CTyankee]

72. You have solved the last one, Jamasteine!

Now, do tell me how in the hell you got the Lorca photo!

#1 was guessed correctly. It is a self portrait by ee cummings.

[sufrommich]

68. Is #1 drawn by Thomas Hart Benton? nt

[CTyankee]

73. No, altho I was tempted to post a Benton image....

[IcyPeas]

77. okay, so...

that means we still don't know who drew ee cummings right?

nor do we know what/who number 4 is.

the others have been solved?

CTyankee. I love these quizzes. I was all over the internet yesterday looking at all sorts of modern art movements - all to no avail. but it's so much fun. It was like a scavenger hunt.

[CTyankee]

80. Oh, I'm sorry. I shudda posted the answers this morning but I thought all the answers

were here in the thread.

1. The ee cummings portrait is a self portrait. Cummings was an accomplished artist as well as a poet.

2. Dorothy Parker by Avedon.

3. Virginia Woolf by Vanessa Bell.

4 is James Joyce as drawn by Brancusi.

5. Eudora Welty is a self portrait. She was a professional photographer before she became a writer.

6. Garcia Lorca by David Seymour.

7. Ezra Pound by Cartier-Bresson.

Hope to see you next week...:hi:

[xchrom]

78. Best thread Evan! Nt

[CTyankee]

82. You're gonna love next week's challenge!

Lots of searches will be going on...