Outsider Artist LL Eveland Rendition of Edith Beale

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This is a canvas giclee print ( not paper canvas) of Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens. This image was painted by Artist LL Eveland This canvas print is signed and dated by the Artist. Image size is approximately 11"X 14" Standard size. This can be quickly matted for a 16" X 20" frame. Visit: for more LL Eveland Framed Outsider Art. Edith Bouvier Beale (November 7, 1917 – ca. January 9, 2002) was an American socialite , fashion model and cabaret performer. She was a first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill . She is best known as "Little Edie," one of the subjects of the documentary film Grey Gardens by Albert and David Maysles . Contents 1 Early life 2 Grey Gardens 3 Later life 4 Death 5 Legacy 6 Further reading 7 References Early life Beale was born in New York City , the only daughter of Phelan Beale , a lawyer, and Edith Ewing Bouvier (known as "Big Edie"). She was born at 987 Madison Avenue (now the site of the Carlyle Hotel ). She had two brothers, Phelan Beale, Jr. , and Bouvier Beale and had a privileged upbringing. Beale attended The Spence School , and graduated from Miss Porter's School , in 1935. She had her debut at the Pierre Hotel on New Year's Day , 1936. Ms. Beale lived a gilded life in her youth. Also in 1936, The New York Times reported on her debut, at which she wore a gown of white net appliqued in silver and a wreath of gardenias in her hair.Starting at 17, she began a successful career as a model. She felt that she was on the verge of a big break into films in 1952, when she was 35. She said she had offers from MGM and Paramount , and that her dance career was set to take off. She also said that wealthy men like Howard Hughes and J. Paul Getty had asked her to marry them. Whether on the verge of success or not, she was called home to Grey Gardens by her mother in 1952, who said she was ill and needed her. She then stayed with her mother at Grey Gardens, not leaving it until two years after her mother's death. She was also a member of the Maidstone Country Club of East Hampton. [1 ]While Beale was young, her mother pursued a singing career, hiring an accompanist and playing small venues and private parties. In the summer of 1931, Phelan Beale abandoned the family, leaving 35-year-old Big Edie dependent on her family for the care of herself and children. Some time later, he obtained a divorce (though Little Edie described it as a "fake Mexican divorce " since it was not recognized by the Catholic Church ).In her youth, Little Edie was a clothes model, primarily in department stores in New York and Palm Beach, Florida . She later claimed to have dated J. Paul Getty , and to have once been engaged to Joe Kennedy, Jr. From 1947 until 1952, she lived in the Barbizon Hotel for Women , hoping to find fame and possibly a husband in Manhattan. While she states in the documentary Grey Gardens that she was searching for an ordered life and a Libra husband, she later confessed in footage included in The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006), and in unseen raw footage, that she seemed only to be interested in men whose zodiac sign was Sagittarius , a bad match for her. She also mused that she had "landed" in New York "at the wrong time," and had not enjoyed the experience. She had moved to the Barbizon Hotel after feeling unsafe at her previous apartment, which was furnished in her mother's valuable antiques. Little Edie told her mother (in the documentary) that by moving back home she missed her big showbiz break via Max Gordon .According to Edie Beale's diaries and letters that she left to her estate executor (her nephew Bouvier), she had an affair in the late 1940s with Julius Albert Krug , the U.S. Secretary of the Interior , who was already married. The relationship is depicted in the 2009 HBO bio film Grey Gardens . 'Big Edith' Beale also alludes to "that married man" during an argument with her daughter in the documentary ("That married man was not going to give you any chance at all.") Grey Gard... read more

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