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Sylvia Plath: her life in art and photographs – in pictures
A visual history of the writer Sylvia Plath is to go on show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. It includes photographs of her throughout her life, rarely seen artwork including self-portraits and letters, and personal objects, including her childhood ponytail, preserved by her mother. Sylvia Plath: One Life can be seen until 20 May 2018
Main image: Sylvia Plath’s ‘Marilyn’ shot Photograph: Gordon Ames Lameyer/Courtesy of The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IndianaSat 1 Jul 2017 05.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 19 Oct 2022 10.20 EDT
Triple-Face Portrait, c 1950-1951 Photograph: © The Estate of Sylvia Plath/Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSylvia Plath’s Childhood Ponytail with her mother’s inscription, August 1945 Photograph: Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSylvia Plath standing beside her bicycle, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1951 Photograph: Marcia B Stern/Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA War to End Wars, self-portrait, 26 February 1946 Photograph: © Estate of Sylvia Plath/Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterStudio photograph of Sylvia Plath, 1954 Photograph: Warren Kay Vantine/College Archives, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterTed Hughes and Sylvia Plath in Yorkshire, UK, 1956 Photograph: Harry Ogden/Courtesy Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPlath’s ‘Marilyn’ shot, June 1954 Photograph: Gordon Ames Lameyer/Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSylvia Plath with typewriter in Yorkshire, September 1956 Photograph: Elinor Friedman Klein/Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSelf-Portrait in Semi-Abstract Style, c 1946-1952 Photograph: Estate of Robert Hittel
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSylvia Plath, 1959 Photograph: Rollie McKenna/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution;
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSylvia Plath with her two children, Nicholas and Frieda, April 1962 Photograph: Siv Arb/Writer Pictures
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter’Twas the Night Before Monday, undated Photograph: Courtesy The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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