Object Details
- Artist
- Berenice Abbott, 17 Jul 1898 - 9 Dec 1991
- Sitter
- Djuna Chappell Barnes, 12 Jun 1892 - 19 Jun 1982
- Exhibition Label
- Born Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
- One of the leaders of 1920s modernism, the writer and artist Djuna Barnes chronicled and became part of the Parisian expatriate avant-garde in the wake of World War I. Early on in her career, while still in her twenties, she wrote articles and created illustrations for Vanity Fair, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and other notable publications. She also published an audacious chapbook of poems, The Book of Repulsive Women (1915), replete with explicit references to lesbian sex that somehow managed to evade prosecution for obscenity.
- Barnes is best known for her innovative, experimental, and autobiographical novel Nightwood (1936), which is often compared to the work of Gertrude Stein (1874–1946). She resettled in New York City in 1940, and while she chose to forego the social life that had fueled her past writing, she continued publishing up until the year of her death.
- Nacida en Cornwall-on-Hudson, Nueva York
- Una de las figuras principales del modernismo en la década de 1920, la escritora y artista Djuna Barnes fue cronista y miembro de la vanguardia expatriada en París después de la Primera Guerra Mundial. En los inicios de su carrera, a los veintitantos años, hizo artículos e ilustraciones para Vanity Fair, el Brooklyn Daily Eagle y otras publicaciones notables. También publicó un audaz cuaderno de poemas, The Book of Repulsive Women (El libro de las mujeres repulsivas, 1915), repleto de referencias explícitas al sexo lésbico, que de alguna manera logró eludir cargos de obscenidad.
- Barnes es conocida sobre todo por Nightwood (1936), una innovadora novela experimental autobiográfica que a menudo se compara con la obra de Gertrude Stein (1874–1946). En 1940 regresó a Nueva York y, aunque decidió abstenerse de la vida social que había alimentado su producción anterior, continuó publicando hasta el año de su muerte.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1926
- Object number
- NPG.82.161
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Berenice Abbott/Getty Images
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/Sheet: 24.5 × 19.4 cm (9 5/8 × 7 5/8")
- Mount: 35.7 × 28.3 cm (14 1/16 × 11 1/8")
- Mat: 55.9 × 40.7 cm (22 × 16")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Costume\Jewelry
- Costume\Jewelry\Earring
- Interior
- Costume\Jewelry\Necklace\Pearl
- Costume\Jewelry\Ring
- Costume\Jewelry\Bracelet
- Djuna Chappell Barnes: Female
- Djuna Chappell Barnes: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Poet
- Djuna Chappell Barnes: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Novelist
- Djuna Chappell Barnes: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Playwright
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.82.161
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm403cf7b84-0dda-4a31-83da-655dfdc9669d
