1891. Samuel Murray, Philadelphia. Saunders #118 [cropped version].
Courtesy of Hirshhorn Musuem and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian
Institution. In May 1891, Murray accompanied the
New York sculptor and friend of Eakins, William O'Donovan, to
Whitman's home and photographed Whitman as an aid to O'Donovan's
sculpting the poet: "they took hell's times in all sorts of
posishes," Whitman groused, but he was excited about this profile
portrait, admiring its "audacity" and its "breadth and beauty
both," calling it "an artist's picture in the best sense."
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