Portraits Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PA.147 |
Title |
Candace Alig Van Alen |
Artist |
Segura Iglesias, Agustín, 1900-1988 |
Date |
1960 |
Description |
Candace Van Alen worked in public relations and journalism, starting her career at a 1945 United Nations Meeting in San Francisco. She was a war correspondent for the International News Service before accepting a job as an editorial writer while assisting the editor and publisher of the New York Herald in 1947. She also wrote articles on Africa for the North American Newspaper Alliance and was contributing editor for Vogue magazine and a columnist for the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune. She married James Van Alen in 1948 and they wrote a weekly tennis column, "Between the Lines," for a group of papers. The two founded the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport in 1954. Portrait. Adult female subject. Waist-length view. She is turned 3/4ths to her left, while she gazes at the viewer. She has brown hair and blue eyes. She is wearing a dark purple/black velvet dress with a red silk shawl. The background is yellowish blue clouds. |
Object Name |
Painting |
Medium |
Oil Paint |
Material |
Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-90.2 W-71.1 cm |
Credit line |
Gift of the estate of Candace Van Alen |
Provenance |
2001, July - Gift of the estate of Candace Van Alen |
Signed Name |
Augustin Segura 1960 |
Signed Name Location |
Lower Right |
Collection |
Painting |
People |
Van Alen, Candace A., 1912-2002 Segura Iglesias, Agustín, 1900-1988 |
Notes |
n.d. |