Fine full-length Mishkin photograph of the noted American bass in role portrait as Pogner in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with autograph signature
Signed in full in black ink and dated "Herbert Witherspoon Pogner Die Meistersinger April 1917." With Mishkin copyright in the plate in white. 202 x 150 mm.
Slightly worn; very small single pinhole to corners and upper margin; laid down to mounting sheet.
An American bass, teacher, and founder of the American Academy of Teachers of Singing (1922), Witherspoon studied with Horatio Parker and MacDowell, among others, making his debut in New York in 1898 as Ramfis in Aida. He was one of the first American singers engaged by Gatti-Casazza at the Metropolitan Opera and was actually chosen to succeed him, but died of a heart attack shortly after taking office. Philip L. Miller in Grove Music Online
Herman Mishkin (1870-1948) served as the Metropolitan Opera's official portraitist from 1908-1932, producing an important body of work documenting "The Golden Age of Opera."
Item #39164
Price: $75.00 other currencies