Irving Penn’s 1947 Portrait of Tanaquil Le Clercq. I love this picture, as well as the poem Frank O’Hara wrote for her, years after she’d contracted polio and could no longer dance. I love that O’Hara always recognized her for a swan.

Irving Penn’s 1947 Portrait of Tanaquil Le Clercq. I love this picture, as well as the poem Frank O’Hara wrote for her, years after she’d contracted polio and could no longer dance. I love that O’Hara always recognized her for a swan.
