Two original photographs of Frances Farmer
- N.p.: N.p., 1940
N.p.: N.p., 1940. Two vintage photographs of actress Frances Farmer. One photograph, produced by Paramount Pictures in 1936, shows a dapper Farmer sporting a hat and tweed coat in 1936, while the other, produced by Vitagraph circa 1940, shows her in a glamour shot. Paramount photograph with a mimeo snipe on the verso, Vitagraph photograph with a printed mimeo snipe and date stamp on the verso.
From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah.
Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Farmer's film career was famously halted by rapid mental deterioration and a subsequent diagnosis with paranoid schizophrenia in 1942. Her posthumously released, ghostwritten, and widely discredited "autobiography" detailed claims of abuse and a forced lobotomy during the period she spent in an institution, and was the basis for a 1982 film starring Jessica Lange as Farmer.
8 x 10 inches. One about Fine, the other Very Good, with light discoloration on the recto and glue residue on the verso.
From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah.
Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Farmer's film career was famously halted by rapid mental deterioration and a subsequent diagnosis with paranoid schizophrenia in 1942. Her posthumously released, ghostwritten, and widely discredited "autobiography" detailed claims of abuse and a forced lobotomy during the period she spent in an institution, and was the basis for a 1982 film starring Jessica Lange as Farmer.
8 x 10 inches. One about Fine, the other Very Good, with light discoloration on the recto and glue residue on the verso.