Grey Gardens Editions: Limited Edition Prints

08/07/2025

Seventy-three years ago today...

It was a Tuesday; the sky was clear and the temperature in the mid-80s, but Edie took a red umbrella to Penn Station just in case. She arrived on the afternoon train at East Hampton and Gould and her mother drove her home. Umbrella and luggage still in hand, they took a few photographs on the front porch in the afternoon sun, Spot II joining in. The sun behind her, Big Edie's shadow looms over her sad and tired daughter. She was home.

Gould left for Paris soon thereafter.

"Mother started calling me up in March and she said you have to come home. Said I can't live here alone, I can't get along, said you have to come home. She called me for three months. She started in March. I held out April, May and June and the end of July I checked out of the Barbizon and came home. I had to obey her." - Edie Beale, 1988.

04/16/2025

Edie had retained 92 pieces of jewelry at her death, many having once belonged to her mother and grandmothers. The most valuable was the pearl and diamond "wedding jewelry" - with the two chandelier style earrings containing 33 Old Mine Cut diamonds weighing 13.7 carats in total. The replacement value of these earrings alone was nearly $100,000 in 2002 dollars.

Worth much less, but instantly recognizable, is this diamond bracelet that Big Edie wore in this 1971 Harry Benson photograph which is set inside a color photo of Mrs. Bouvier Beale Jr.'s wrist as she prepares a picnic for her daughters and their friends in a photo shared on Facebook in 2012. I think we have a match...

"You are definitely qualified to wear my Mother's jewelry!" - Edie Beale to her cousin and intended heir, August 19, 1998 [SPOILER ALERT: Edie's not writing to the person in the photo wearing it...].

09/01/2022

Before the Bradlees and Quinns ever set foot in Grey Gardens, both Big and Little Edie as well as their extended house guest and close friend Lois Wright believed it was haunted. During a short scene featuring archival footage shot by the Maysles brothers in Lee Radziwill's 2018 film That Summer, the Beales are overheard talking on the phone with Lois, arguing about an apparition.

"Lois, darling, I made visual contact with somebody in mother’s room," says Little Edie.
"Yes, I pierced the veil. I made no identification, I saw no features no face but there were no workmen here. We may be getting into very dangerous territory here!"

"You know there's only one person I hope it was," she continues, in reference to a former lover, Julius A. "Captain" Krug, who had recently died.

Is one of the ghosts a Kennedy?

08/08/2022

The remaining limited edition prints are now available! Thrilled to be able to offer these again! Message me if you wish to inquire!

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03/17/2015

Lois Wright
Little Edie Beale
Giclée Print
Edition of 500
16 x 20 inches

Lois Wright
The Great Dancer and Singer
Giclée Print
16 x 20 inches
Edition of 500

To purchase prints please contact me directly at [email protected] as the website is currently not active.

05/31/2010

Lois Wright lived at Grey Gardens with the Big and Little Edie Beale for thirteen months, during which time she used them as subjects of her paintings. Grey Gardens Editions has produced limited edition prints of two of her most popular paintings which are in the permanent collection of the National Arts Club, New York. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist and are available for online order.

03/30/2010

Grey Gardens Editions has published limited edition prints of two of Lois Wright's most popular paintings of the Beales of Grey Gardens. Each print is signed and numbered by Lois Wright and are available for order from: http://greygardenseditions.com/

03/30/2010

Lois Wright has exhibited her artwork at The Gallery in Sag Harbor and in April 2009, she had a one-woman show at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park, NYC. Lois’ paintings of “Big” Edie Bouvier Beale and “Little” Edie Bouvier Beale are not only sincere portraits, but hold the added importance of being painted at Grey Gardens or later from memory.

03/30/2010

Born on July 9, 1928, Lois Wright is an artist, a writer and, a long-time resident of East Hampton, L.I. Her manuscript for My Life at Grey Gardens: 13 Months and Beyond, A True and Factual Book was added to the Library of Congress in 1978 and published as a book in 2007. She used the journals that she kept at the Beales’ famous home on Lily Pond Lane as the basis for her story.