Edith Wharton
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Extensive European travel was an important element of that lifestyle. Between the ages of four and ten, Wharton sojourned with her family in Italy, Spain, and France. While eight-year-old Edith was living in Paris, the Anglo-American artist Edward Harrison May painted this portrait."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Although Wharton would later chronicle the frustrations of her childhood, it was during the European trips of her youth that she came to enjoy \u00e2\u0080\u009cmaking up\u00e2\u0080\u009d\u00e2\u0080\u0094inventing the fictional worlds she would write about as an adult. From the mid-1890s, Wharton spent much of her life abroad, where she formed friendships with other American expatriates, such as Henry James. Yet she owed her fame to incisive depictions of New York\u00e2\u0080\u0099s upper class, as in the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Age of Innocence (1920)."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacida en la Ciudad de Nueva York"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Antes de su celebrada carrera literaria, Edith Newbold Jones Wharton tuvo una ni\u00c3\u00b1ez privilegiada dentro de la \u00c3\u00a9lite social de Nueva York. Un aspecto importante de esa vida fueron los extensos viajes por Europa. Entre los cuatro y diez a\u00c3\u00b1os de edad, Wharton vivi\u00c3\u00b3 con su familia en Italia, Espa\u00c3\u00b1a y Francia. El artista angloamericano Edward Harrison May le pint\u00c3\u00b3 este retrato a los ocho a\u00c3\u00b1os, en Par\u00c3\u00ads."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Aunque Wharton luego relatar\u00c3\u00ada las frustraciones de su infancia, fue en aquellas estad\u00c3\u00adas juveniles en Europa que empez\u00c3\u00b3 a disfrutar la \u00e2\u0080\u009cinvenci\u00c3\u00b3n\u00e2\u0080\u009d de mundos ficticios que luego abordar\u00c3\u00ada en sus escritos de adulta. Desde mediados de la d\u00c3\u00a9cada de 1890, pas\u00c3\u00b3 gran parte de su vida en el extranjero e hizo amistad con otros expatriados estadounidenses, entre ellos Henry James. No obstante, debe su fama a sus penetrantes descripciones de la clase alta neoyorquina, como en La edad de la inocencia (1920), su novela ganadora del Premio Pulitzer."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "The sitter\u00e2\u0080\u0099s parents; the sitter; bequest to her niece Mrs. Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor Maine; sitter\u00e2\u0080\u0099s godson Colin Clark, England, [son of Kenneth Clark];(Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles); purchased 1982 NPG"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Letter from Jacob Zeitlin to Robert G. Stewart, 12 July 1982. Whatron stipulated in her will [1937] that her niece give the portrait tot Kenneth Clark\u00e2\u0080\u0099s son, her godson Colin. A photograph at Yale University, Beinecke Library, documents the portrait in her parents\u00e2\u0080\u0099 house in Newport, Rhode Island. See also correspondence with Erica Donnis, Curator of Collections, The Mount, Lenox, Mass. NPG curatorial file."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; This portrait was adopted by members of the National Portrait Gallery Commission in honor of Dan Okrent, chairman, 2004\u00e2\u0080\u00938."}], "name": [{"label": "Artist", "content": "Edward Harrison May, 1824 - 1887"}, {"label": "Sitter", "content": "Edith Wharton, 24 Jan 1862 - 11 Aug 1937"}], "topic": [{"label": "Topic", "content": "Nature & Environment\\Plant\\Flower"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Edith Wharton: Female"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Edith Wharton: Education and Scholarship\\Scholar\\Historian"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Edith Wharton: Literature\\Writer\\Novelist"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Edith Wharton: Pulitzer Prize"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Edith Wharton: Legion of Honor"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Portrait"}], "title": [{"label": "Alternate Title", "content": "Edith Jones at age 5"}], "physicalDescription": [{"label": "Medium", "content": "Oil on canvas"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Stretcher: 73 x 60.3 x 3.8cm (28 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 1 1/2\")"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Frame: 89.5 x 71.1 x 7.6cm (35 1/4 x 28 x 3\")"}], "dataSource": [{"label": "Data Source", "content": "National Portrait Gallery"}], "objectRights": [{"label": "Restrictions & Rights", "content": "CC0"}], "objectType": [{"label": "Type", "content": "Painting"}]}}, "url": "edanmdm:npg_NPG.82.136", "hash": "bac8daf445bbea9d2017af76e61a3e95c9b6b64f", "docSignature": "6e7f60230b1ca2429bfdd40813636033", "timestamp": 1664441800, "lastTimeUpdated": 1664441716, "title": "Edith Wharton"}