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(Wharton, Edith). (Dwight, Eleanor; Winner, Viola Hopkins). ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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(Wharton, Edith). (Dwight, Eleanor; Winner, Viola Hopkins). EDITH WHARTON'S WORLD: Portraits of People and Places. The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. (September 26, 1997-January 25, 1998). (Catalog).
(Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1997). 1997). Fine
- Quarto [11 inches high by 8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial cream wrappers. There is a price-sticker on the rear wrap. 13 & [5] pages. Profuse illustrations in color and black & white. Near fine. In their catalog essay, Eleanor Dwight and Viola Hopkins Winner point out that Edith Wharton's career was launched with the publication "The Decoration of Houses", her first book, co-written with her architect friend Ogden Codman. Her taste in art, architecture and decoration was developed through her travels in Europe and her friendships with French and American artists and writers while living in Paris. This exhibition assembled more than one hundred art objects and literary artifacts which "bring to life her remarkable personality and the milieu of her cosmopolitan society".
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