Object Details
- Artist
- Edward Jean Steichen, 27 Mar 1879 - 25 Mar 1973
- Sitter
- Pearl S. Buck, 26 Jun 1892 - 6 Mar 1973
- Exhibition Label
- Born Hillsboro, West Virginia
- The American novelist Pearl S. Buck once said, “Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.” For more than thirty years, she lived in China, first in the city of Zhenjiang with her missionary parents and later in Nanjing with her husband, who was also a missionary. Her experiences there greatly influenced her writing. In 1932, Buck (known as Sai Zhenzhu in China) won the Pulitzer Prize for her second novel, The Good Earth. She then went on to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938 after writing two books about the lives of her parents: The Exile and Fighting Angel (both 1936).
- Buck posed for this portrait in 1932, just before her break with the Presbyterian missionary groups in China. In a speech she made around this time, she welcomed the Chinese to share her Christian faith without interference from well-intentioned, yet culturally and historically uninformed, missionaries.
- Nacida en Hillsboro, Virginia Occidental
- La novelista Pearl S. Buck afirmó: “Nada ni nadie puede destruir al pueblo chino. Son sobrevivientes implacables”. Buck vivió en China más de 30 años, primero en Zhenjiang con sus padres, que eran misioneros, y luego en Nanjing con su esposo, también misionero. Sus experiencias allí influyeron grandemente sus escritos. En 1932, Buck (conocida como Sai Zhenzhu en China) ganó el Premio Pulitzer por su segunda novela, La buena tierra. Recibiría el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1938, luego de escribir dos libros sobre las vidas de sus padres: La exiliada y El ángel luchador (ambas 1936).
- Buck posó para este retrato en 1932, justo antes de romper con los grupos misioneros presbiterianos en China. Hacia esa época pronunció un discurso en que invitaba a los chinos a compartir su fe cristiana sin la mediación de los misioneros, quienes, a pesar de sus buenas intenciones, no conocían los aspectos culturales e históricos.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1932
- Object number
- NPG.85.93
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Condé Nast
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/Sheet: 25.2 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8")
- Mat: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Costume\Jewelry\Necklace
- Interior
- Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair
- Costume\Jewelry\Ring\Wedding Band
- Pearl S. Buck: Female
- Pearl S. Buck: Arts & Culture\Literature\Writer
- Pearl S. Buck: Arts & Culture\Literature\Writer\Novelist
- Pearl S. Buck: Nobel Prize
- Pearl S. Buck: Literary awards\Pulitzer Prize
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.85.93
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4de14a6c1-b5f5-4371-b716-8f4443fb9e23
