W.H. Auden

Sitterback to top

• Wystan Hugh ('W.H.') Auden (1907-1973), Poet. Sitter associated with 41 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Richard Avedon (1923-2004). Artist of 5 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

This portraitback to top

In the late 1950s Auden returned to England, where he had been elected professor of poetry at Oxford. Despite residual hostility in his home country caused by his move to America, his three annual lectures were highly successful and published in The Dyer's Hand (1962). Auden continued to spend his winters in New York, and this portrait was taken near his apartment in St Mark's Place, the year he published Homage to Clio.

Linked publicationsback to top

• Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery: An Illustrated Guide, 2000, p. 209
• Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery, 1997, p. 209
• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 23

Subject/Themeback to top

• Snow