Rosemary Hoyt on the Beach, Headpiece for Chapter II
Date1934
Artist
Edward Shenton
(American illustrator, author, poet, and teacher, 1895–1977)
Illustration CitationTender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934).
MediumInk and graphite on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 3 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (8.3 × 14.9 cm)
sheet: 5 1/8 × 9 1/4 in. (13 × 23.5 cm)
support: 5 1/4 × 9 1/4 in. (13.3 × 23.5 cm)
sheet: 5 1/8 × 9 1/4 in. (13 × 23.5 cm)
support: 5 1/4 × 9 1/4 in. (13.3 × 23.5 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2022
Object number2022-36
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextF. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, Tender Is the Night, opens with starlet Rosemary Hoyt arriving at her hotel on the French Riviera. She makes her way to the beach where she encounters the book's main characters, Dick and Nicole Diver, spread out with friends under umbrellas nearby.
