It is, in my opinion, a beautiful portrait. It was taken in the second half of the 80s in El Paso by Cynthia Farah Haines, photographer, writer and Cormac McCarthy’s friend. It was not included though in her book “Literature and Landscape” which collects 50 portraits of southwestern writers and was saved in Cynthia Farah Photograph Collection Writers of the Southwest held at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.