🎭 I talk with historian and author @elizamreese.bsky.social about Edwin Booth and the Theatre of Grief — exploring the intersections of art, family, and fate in the aftermath of Lincoln’s assassination. Listen here: redcircle.com/shows/6092bd...
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Gramercy Park on the cover of the The New Yorker, May 18, 1935, with Quinn's statue of Edwin Booth
Adolph K. Kronengold
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#OTD in 1913
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Bronze statue of fabled Shakespearean actor #EdwinBooth (1833-1893) by #sculptor #EdmondTQuinn (1868-1929) unveiled Nov. 13, 1918, Booth's birthday, in #GramercyPark, NYC. Booth was the founder of the club The Players, whose stately headquarters on the park ➡️
Van Vechten & Demuth also frequented the 5th-Ave salons of heiress #MabelDodge, married to architect #EdwinSDodge, a member of the artistic & literary club, The Players, the man to the right at the unveiling of the statue of the club's leader, actor #EdwinBooth in #GrammercyPark.
#OTD in 1935
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May 18, 1935
Adolph K. Kronengold
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With the statue of eminent Shakespearean actor #EdwinBooth (1833-1893) as Hamlet. Booth was the founder of the club The Players, whose stately headquarters on the park ➡️
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John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), “Edwin Booth,” 1890
oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 2013.7
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