American Decades
Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Painting
By: Larry Rivers
Date: 1953
Source: Rivers, Larry. Washington Crossing the Delaware. Available online at http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Paintings&Poems/Washington.jpg; website home page: http://www.emory.edu (accessed January 31, 2003).
About the Author: Larry Rivers (1924–2002) was an artist, writer, and teacher who first made a reputation for himself as a jazz saxophonist. He came to prominence for his figurative paintings, which combined highbrow and low culture; throughout his varied career his artwork consistently defied easy categorization.
"On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware
at the Museum of Modern Art"
Poem
By: Frank...
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1950's The Arts Primary Sources
- Isamu Noguchi's Sculpture
- Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara
- Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy
- Pianist Glenn Gould
- Art and Life of Lee Krasner
- "On a Book Entitled Lolita"
- "Choreography and the Dance"
- Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy
- "Why I Wrote The Crucible"
- Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
- As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
- "Ivan Moffat: The Making of Giant"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
