Mary Randlett Portraits

Frances McCue is an award-winning poet, essayist, and arts administrator. The founding director of the Richard Hugo House, McCue currently teaches writing and literature as a writer-in-residence at the University of Washington¿s Undergraduate Honors Program. Her first book of poetry, The Stenographer¿s Breakfast, won the Barnard New Women¿s Poetry Prize, and her most recent book of poetry, The Bled, won the 2011 Washington State Book Award for poetry. She is also the author, with photographs by Mary Randlett, of The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo. Mary Randlett has been photographing the Northwest for almost eighty years. Her works are held in at least forty permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution.

About the author

Frances McCue. Photographs by Mary Randlett

Summary

Known for both her landscapes and portraits, the author began documenting Northwest figures in 1963 when Theodore Roethke asked her to photograph him in his Seattle home. In addition to Roethke, this title includes portraits of renowned artists Jacob Lawrence, Mark Tobey, and Morris Graves; writers Tom Robbins, Henry Miller; and more.

Product details

• Authors: Frances McCue, Frances/ Randlett McCue
• Assisted by: Mary Randlett (Photographs)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9780295993973
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99397-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: McLellan Endowed Series; McLellan Endowed; McLellan Endowed; Mary Randlett Portraits
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture