NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Art created by DeLoss McGraw and inspired by poems by Robert Penn Warren will be exhibited at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University in April. McGraw will discuss his work on Tuesday, April 5.
McGraw speaks at 4:10 p.m. on April 5 in Room 118 of the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center, which is near the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities on the Vanderbilt campus. A reception and viewing will follow the lecture.
All events are free and open to the public.
The exhibit is part of Vanderbilt events marking the 100th birthday of Warren, author of 10 novels including All the King‘s Men, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and the nation‘s first poet laureate. Warren attended Vanderbilt from 1921 to 1925 and was part of a prominent group of Vanderbilt writers dubbed The Fugitives, which included fellow student Allen Tate and instructor John Crowe Ransom. Warren taught at Vanderbilt for three years.
McGraw is known for his art inspired by authors and poets including Emily Dickinson, Mary Shelley, William Blake and Warren. He has also collaborated with contemporary writers including Robert Phillips, Daniel Halpern, Barton Thurber and W.D. Snodgrass. He has been exhibited around the world including the Cincinnati Art Museum, Columbia University, Oxford University and the Whitney Museum of Art.
Drawings and monoprints inspired by Warren poems, including “Fear and Trembling,” “Afterward,” “Another Dimension” and “Millpond Lost,” are among works on exhibit April 4-29 at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.
For directions or more information about the exhibit, contact the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at 615-343-6060 or rpw.center@vanderbilt.edu.
Media contact: Jim Patterson, (615) 322-NEWS
Jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu