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| Keywords: Walt Whitman edit 2.jpg Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox jpg Assessments 2 delist/Walt Whitman 1 The Laughing Philosopher American poet Walt Whitman 1819 92 <ref name 1start> cite web http //www 1st-art-gallery com/George-C -Cox/The-Laughing-Philosopher-A-Portrait-Of-Walt-Whitman- 1819-91 -September-1887 html The Laughing Philosopher a portrait of Walt Whitman 1819-91 September 1887 2009-07-13 1st-Art-Gallery </ref> This image was made in 1887 in New York by photographer George C Cox The image is said to have been Whitman's favorite from the photo-session; Cox published about seven images for Whitman who so admired this image that he even sent a copy to the poet Tennyson in England Whitman sold the other copies <ref> cite book Kaplan Justin 2003 Walt Whitman A Life HarperCollins New York pp 38 39 http //books google com/books id 35BwAAAAMAAJ 1980 0060535113 Burial House http //books google com/books id 35BwAAAAMAAJ pg PA33 2009-07-13 During one brief visit to New York for his Lincoln lecture in April 1887 Whitman made an appointment with Augustus Saint-Gaudens sat for a portrait by the painter Dora Wheeler a friend of the Gilders and was photographed at the Broadway studio of George C Cox He liked one of Cox's portraits so much that he titled it The Laughing Philosopher sent an autographed copy to Tennyson and put other copies on sale to supplement his income </ref> Currently vended commercially in a format suitable for magazine book reproduction by picture library Corbis The image was apparently originally in the collection of Charles E Feinberg and then entered the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art under curator John Szarkowski LOC-image ppmsca 07549 George C Cox 1851 1902 <ref name 1start /> 1887 1902 <gallery> File Walt Whitman jpg </gallery> increased contrast References reflist Photographs of Walt Whitman 1887 George C Cox | ||||
