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Image of Tennessee Williams

Yousuf Karsh
Canadian, born Armenia, 1908–2002

Tennessee Williams

1956

Object Type: Photograph
Dimensions:
24 in. x 20 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm)
Medium and Support: Gelatin silver print on paper
Accession Number: 2013.0005.0074

Credit Line: Gift of Estrellita Karsh, in honor of Mark M. Johnson, and in memory of Yousuf Karsh
Copyright: © Estate of Yousuf Karsh


Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) The plays of this American writer include The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In these, as in many of his later works, Williams explores the passions and frustrations of a disturbed and frequently brutal society. Williams won a Rockefeller Fellowship, two Pulitzer prizes, a Kennedy Honors Award, and a Medal of Freedom. The playwright’s deceptively easy manner, informal speech, and carefree air reminded Karsh of various characters in Williams’ work—ordinary-looking men hiding an unsuspected fury which invariably erupts on stage, often in tragedy.

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