National Society of Colonial Dames of
America in Tennessee

Austin Peay State University - Clarksville, Tennessee
Subject/Title:
Warren, Robert Penn
Artist:Vainer, Earnest
Date Created:1995
Owner/Location:Austin Peay State University
Frame Dimensions:36 x 30
Image Dimensions:29.5 x 23.5
Materials/Media:Oil on canvasn
Date Documented:12/19/2007
Condition:Excellent
Description:Three quarter portrait of Robert Penn Warren standing with his left leg propped up on something unknown. His right hand crosses his left hand in front of his body as if resting on his left leg. He is an older gentleman in this portrait with grey hair. He is wearing a brown jacket, tan trousers and a red turtleneck shirt.
History of Work:On display in the Library at APSU.
Notes:Robert Penn Warren was born April 24, 1904, in Guthrie, a railway junction and market town in southern Kentucky.  In the fall of 1920 he entered the high school across the border in Clarksville, Tennessee, graduating at the age of fifteen. He went on to win two Pulitzer Prizes for his works, All the Kings Men and Promises: Poems 1954-1956.

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