Record ID
309140
Object title
Igor Stravinsky's cane [object].
Published
American, ca. 1960s
Credit line
Gift of Paul Horgan.
Provenance
Stravinsky's widow, Vera, presented the cane in 1978 to Paul Horgan, the American writer whose works included a biography of Stravinsky.
Notes
Stravinsky suffered a stroke in 1956, and had chronic health problems for the rest of his life. He used this cane in California ten years later (photograph of Stravinsky with the cane reproduced in Robert Craft's Stravinsky Scrapbook).
Associated names
Stravinsky, Vera, former owner.
Horgan, Paul, 1903-1995, former owner.
Horgan, Paul, 1903-1995, former owner.
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