untitled (Truman Capote..mail box..Holcomb, KS)

Richard Avedon, artist

1923–2004

untitled (Truman Capote..mail box..Holcomb, KS), 1960

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 504 x 404 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 19 13/16 x 15 7/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: Museum purchase

Accession number: 1991.0015

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"A Kansas Arts Sampler," Oct-2004, Kate Meyer
Avedon offers a portrait of Capote in the town of Holcomb, the setting for his book, In Cold Blood. Capote came to Kansas in 1959 to document the murders of the Clutter family that had taken place there earlier that fall. The media coverage of the deaths, Capote’s book, and its later realization as a film all explore the universal fear that violence can intrude upon the smallest of towns.