Background
Marcella Comès was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Marcella Winslow
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She attended the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts.
Career
She was the official portrait painter of the United States Poet Laureate. She also trained in Europe. She lived in Washington, District of Columbia and was active in the art scene.
Their home in Georgetown was a salon space frequented by literary figures of the time.
Colonel Winslow died of pneumonia while serving in 1945. Comès died on July 6, 2000.
Comès was the official portrait painter of the United States Poet Laureate. As official portrait painter, she painted portraits of Allen Tate, Elizabeth Bishop, Karl Shapiro, and Léonie Adams.
She also painted portraits of Robert Lowell, Katherine Garrison Chapin, Ezra Pound, Saint-John Perse, Caroline Gordon, Walter de la Mare, John Rothenstein, Denis Devlin, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Katherine Anne Porter, Anne Goodwin Winslow, Mark Van Doren, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Walter Jackson Bate, John Huston Finley, Harry Tuchman Levin, and Cornelius Weygandt.
She served as president of the Washington, District of Columbia chapter of the Artists Equity Association and was vice president for the organizations" national association. Her work is held in the collection the Harvard Art Museums and the National Portrait Gallery. Her papers are held in the Archives of American Artist
Membership
She was involved as a member of the Corcoran Gallery of Art"s Women"s Commission.
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