Peter Stackpole Silver Gelatin Photograph of Vivien Leigh for Life Magazine

Item Details

Peter Stackpole (American, 1913-1997)
Untitled (Vivien Leigh with Oscar, 1940), late 20th century
Signed to the margin to the lower right
Print of photograph appeared in Life Magazine

This work features a photograph of actress Vivien Leigh taken the night she won the Oscar ‘Best Actress in a Leading Role’ for playing ‘Scarlett O’Hara’ in Gone with the Wind. Taken by Peter Stackpole for Life magazine, the photograph features the actress holding the Oscar, wearing the dress she wore to the awards.

Peter Stackpole was one of Life magazine’s ‘original four’ staff photographers, along with Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, and Thomas McAvoy. Educated in the San Francisco Bay area and Paris, he was a peer of Dorthea Lange, Edward Weston, Diego Rivera, and an honorary member of the San Francisco-based photographers known as Group f/64. Aside from Viven Leigh, some of the celebrities he photographed were Gary Cooper, Alfred Hitchcock, Elizabeth Taylor, and Greer Garson, to name a few. In addition, he was celebrated for his underwater photography as he documented the production of the 1954 adventure film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and also photographed the competitive free-diver Hope Root in the ocean off the Floridian coast. Stackpole’s work has been collected and exhibited by multiple institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Birmingham Museum of Art, among others.

Condition

- minor abrasions to the frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; image measures 10.375" W x 12.75" H.

Item #

ITMG242856