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References

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 Portraits of O'Hara

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 Online Discussion

 Others

 Online Journal

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 Portraits of O'Hara
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***These are a variety of portraits of O'Hara done by different artists. 

The photo is from Brad Gooch's City Life: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara  (New York: Knopf, 1993)   

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     1. An introduction to O'Hara from Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Poetry  <Click
      
     2. A review of Brad Gooch's biography called 

City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara 

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 Poems
¡@ 1. For Grace, After Party (external)

        --This poem was written for Grace Hartigan, a visual artist and friend of O'Hara.
  
        --Hartigan and O'Hara collaborated on a series of paintings called "Oranges" in which Hartigan included parts of O'Hara's poem  "Oranges" in her series of paintings.  The two   paintings on the right are from this series. Both are from Grace Hartigan: A Painter's World by Robert Saltonstall Mattison (New York: Hudson Hills P, 1990) 


 

 
Oranges #4  
 (The Changing Dialectics of Our World)
 
¡@Oranges #6   
  (The Light Only Reaches Halfway)

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2. "On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art" (external)

 --As the title indicates, this poem is based upon a painting by the artist Larry Rivers. 

--Comment by O'Hara on Larry Rivers (external)

        

 
Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953) 
by Larry Rivers, Oil on canvas, approximately 7 feet x 9 feet.   The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. 

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3. Joseph Cornell

 
This is from A Festschrift for Joseph Cornell.

 

Toward the Blue Peninsula  1951-52 (120 Kb); Construction, 10 5/8 x 14 15/16 x 3 15/16 in;  collection Daniel Varenne, Geneva from the WebMuseum 
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--This box is about the artist Joseph Cornell who created wooden box constructions which O'Hara greatly admired.  

 --Site with biography of the surrealist artist Joseph Cornell and examples of some of his box constructions <Click> 

 
Joseph Cornell 
This photo is from:
 http://enteract.com/%7Edevylder/Dossier/dossierFrame.html

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4. Digression on Number 1, 1948  (external)

--This poem is based on Number 1 (1948) by Jackson Pollack.  Pollack was an abstract expressionist painter known for his action paintings and drip paintings. 

--An introduction to abstract expressionism can be found at the following site <Click> 

 
Number 1 (1948) by Jackson Pollack

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5. The Day Lady Died

--This is an elegy for Billie Holliday. 

--A "Lady Day" site devoted to Holiday and her jazz music

 
photo credit: William P. Gottlieb 
It's from the site

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6. Ave Maria (external)

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7. Lana Turner has collapsed! 

--"The Lana Turner Page," a site with filmography and links of Lana Turner <Click 


 

 
This photo is from 
The Lana Turner Page

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***The painting with the title is Girlfriend Walks! by Brenda Clancy (Mixed Media on Paper) from HyperMart: B. Clancy Fine Art and Graphic Design.
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 Online Discussion
¡@ This online essay entitled "Rebel Poets of the 1950s" provides a good introduction to O'Hara and his literary, artistic, and cultural contexts
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 Others
¡@ 1. Allen Ginsberg's poem "My Sad Self" which is dedicated to O'Hara

2. O'Hara was an avid supporter of abstract expressionist art.  Here's a site with abstract expressionist paintings <Click>

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