Edward GoreyAmerican, 1925–2000Memento Mori
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 2009.979
In the catalog
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- Art Institute of Chicago
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Meanwhile, in the life of Edward Gorey
The whole life1944–1946
Army service at Dugway Proving Ground
From 1944 to 1946 he served in the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.
1946–1950 · Education
Harvard University
1946–1950
Harvard: French and the poet Frank O’Hara as roommate
He enters Harvard University in 1946, studies French and graduates in the class of 1950. His roommate is the poet Frank O’Hara.
early 1950s
Co-founds the Poets’ Theatre with friends
With a group of recent Harvard and Radcliffe alumni, including Alison Lurie, John Ashbery, Donald Hall and Frank O’Hara, he founds the Poets’ Theatre in Cambridge. It was supported by the Harvard faculty members John Ciardi and Thornton Wilder.
