Dennis Lyall: Ernest Hemingway

Artist: Dennis Lyall
1946 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1989
Image Size: 12.75 by 14.875 inches
Overall Size: 13.125 by 15.25 inches
Medium: Oil on Canvas

One of the towering literary figures of the 20th century, Ernest Hemingway received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Affectionately known as "Papa," he was a master storyteller, encapsulating the most complex human dreams and fears in straightforward plots and simple words. He created novels and short-stories that delighted critics, achieved high sales, were transformed into movies and plays, and, much like the poems of Robert Frost, can be enjoyed by grammar school children and doctors of literature alike. Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was a doctor of medicine, and an avid hunter and fisherman, introducing young Ernest to some of the themes which filled his later works. It was when Hemingway decided to forego college to work for the Kansas City Star that he began his career as a writer, eventually guided in Paris through his first serious creative efforts by expatriates Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, then later covering the Spanish Civil War. From his very first major collection of stories and paragraphs, In Our Time (1925), his abilities were evident. His first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, published a year later, vividly told the story of the aimless postwar "lost generation" and made him a world literary figure at age twenty-seven. His total creative output of six novels and fifty short stories, brought to a close by ill health and suicide in 1961, stand as perhaps the most influential American prose of the first half of the 20th century.

This artwork was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the U.S. 25¢ Ernest Hemingway stamp issued July 17, 1989.|5A2418

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