Weldon Kees

Weldon Kees worked in American literature, American poetry, American drama, literary criticism and painting.

He belonged to American Abstract Artists.

What the record establishes about Weldon Kees.

Woman against a White Background is dated 1910/14 and held by The Art Institute of Chicago (inventory 1946.48). The Departure is dated n.d. and held by The Art Institute of Chicago (inventory 1933.906). Weldon Kees is recorded as novelist, painter, poet, literary critic and musician. The Art Institute of Chicago records 3 objects associated with this heading. Weldon Kees is recorded with the citizenship of United States. Open Library catalogues 16 works under this name.

The identifiers under which Weldon Kees may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Weldon Kees is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q7980910.

18 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library and The Art Institute of Chicago.

A "New Yorker" experience. Contributor's note. Nonverbal communication. The fall of the magicians. Fall Quarter. Five lost poems. The last man. Limericks to friends. Reviews and essays, 1936-55. Selected short stories of Weldon Kees. Two prose sketches. The ceremony & other stories. Collected poems. Poems, 1947-1954. Weldon Kees and the midcentury generation. The collected poems of Weldon Kees. The Wrestlers, dated n.d., watercolor, gouache and brush and black ink, on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove card, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1933.905. The Departure, dated n.d., lithograph, touched with black ink, blue crayon and graphite, on cream wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1933.906.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

6 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

1926 by Weldon Kees. Kees, Weldon (24 February 1914–18 July 1955?), poet, American National Biography Online, 2000. The Poetry of Weldon Kees, 2017. Kees, Weldon, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2017. My Only Photograph of Weldon Kees, The Selected Levis. Weldon Kees and the Poetic Landscapes of Despair, Acta Neophilologica, 2022.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 7 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.