Record ID:
309140
Title:
Igor Stravinsky's cane [object].
Published:
American, ca. 1960s
Credit Line:
Gift of Paul Horgan.
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).
Provenance:
Stravinsky's widow, Vera, presented the cane in 1978 to Paul Horgan, the American writer whose works included a biography of Stravinsky.
Associated names:
Stravinsky, Vera, former owner.
Horgan, Paul, 1903-1995, former owner.
Department:
Music Collection: