The Whitman Gallery


1887. George C. Cox, New York. Not in Saunders. Courtesy Ohio Wesleyan University, Bayley Collection. With Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones, the nephew and niece of Jeannette Gilder, editor of The Critic, who accompanied Whitman to Cox's studio. Gilder was a friend of both Whitman and Cox, and she would end up raising these children after the death of their mother. This and the following three photos echo the 1879 Kurtz photos of Whitman with Harry and Kitty Johnston; Cox saw these children as "soul extensions" of Whitman.
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