Portrait of the American poet and museum curator as he strikes a pose similar to that of Auguste Rodin's 'St. John the Baptist Preaching' in the Museum of Modern Art garden, New York, New York, January 20, 1960. Printed later, photograph dated, titled and signed recto by photographer Fred W. McDarrah, and again to the verso. Partial ghost of a stamp to the lower recto margin, else very fine. 8 x 10 inches; 20.5 x 25.5 cm. Very fine. 

Not only was Frank O'Hara one of the most important American poets of his generation, he was also intimately involved with the art world of the 1950s and 1960s, a time when New York had become the cultural capital of the world. As an associate curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara organized a series of important exhibitions, notably of the work of Franz Kline and of Robert Motherwell.

Longtime Greenwich Village photographer Fred W. McDarrah was the first picture editor and staff photographer for the legendary New York City newspaper The Village Voice.