Object Details
- Artist
- Raymond Elman, born 1945
- Sitter
- Jhumpa Lahiri, born 11 Jul 1967
- Exhibition Label
- Born London, England
- In recalling her father’s warning that a writing life was not a secure one, Jhumpa Lahiri wrote, “I listen to him, and at the same time I have learned not to listen, to wander to the edge of the precipice and leap.” Her first book, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. As a child growing up in Rhode Island, Lahiri remembers the important role that books and stories played in her visual and psychic landscape. Her father, a librarian and later a professor, filled the house with books. Her grandfather’s vibrant storytelling on her first visit to India contributed to a passion for reading. Later, novels became a way of “trespassing” on the American culture that was foreign to her immigrant parents.
- Artist Raymond Elman chose to portray Lahiri in by the sea in Cape Cod, a setting that he describes as “universal.”
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist
- 2012
- Object number
- NPG.2012.85
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Raymond Elman
- Type
- Mixed Media
- Medium
- Photograph enhanced with oil pigment on paper adhered to canvas
- Dimensions
- Stretcher: 101.6 × 152.4cm (40 × 60")
- Place
- United States\Massachusetts\Barnstable\Wellfleet
- Alternate Title
- "Rock in the Wind" Jhumpa Lahiri
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Costume\Jewelry\Necklace
- Exterior\Waterscape\Seascape
- Costume\Jewelry\Bracelet
- Costume\Jewelry\Watch\Wrist watch
- Jhumpa Lahiri: Female
- Jhumpa Lahiri: Literature\Writer
- Jhumpa Lahiri: Pulitzer Prize
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2012.85
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4cd80cfc0-cc8d-4a65-8bf8-a9078494d97d
