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Helen Gurley Brown
Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Born Green Forest, Arkansas
- Helen Gurley Brown is best remembered as the dynamic editor who took charge of the moribund Cosmopolitan magazine in 1965 and transformed it into a best-selling publication aimed at young professional women. Brown first gained national attention in 1962 with the publication of Sex and the Single Girl, her candid take on “how to stay single in superlative style.” For the traditionally minded, this title was an oxymoron at the very least. But the book flew off bookstore shelves and struck a positive chord with early advocates of what would become the sexual revolution. Under Brown’s leadership, Cosmopolitan soon emerged as a major outlet for the liberated single woman who came to epitomize the “Cosmo Girl.” By the time of Brown’s retirement in 1997 after thirty-two years at Cosmo’s helm, the magazine’s circulation had reached three million, an increase of more than 300 percent.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Date
- 1967
- Object number
- NPG.2005.34
- Artist
- Ann Zane Shanks, 1927 - 2015
- Sitter
- Helen Gurley Brown, 18 Feb 1922 - 13 Aug 2012
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Anne Shanks
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/Sheet: 35.2 x 27.5cm (13 7/8 x 10 13/16")
- Mat (TO BE CONFIRMED): 71.1 x 55.9cm (28 x 22")
- Place
- United States\New York\Kings\New York
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Topic
- Interior
- Costume\Jewelry\Brooch
- Printed Material\Papers
- Interior\Office
- Home Furnishings\Furniture\Desk
- Equipment\Drafting & Writing Implements\Typewriter
- Helen Gurley Brown: Female
- Helen Gurley Brown: Arts & Culture\Literature\Writer
- Helen Gurley Brown: Social Welfare and Reform\Philanthropist
- Helen Gurley Brown: Arts & Culture\Literature\Editor
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2005.34
- Usage
- Usage conditions apply
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