Help re: Frida Kahlo's painting "Suicide of Dorothy Hal

[Merry]

Can anyone here help with this?

http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?s=0b988c9ba6f8721d5bd5804c159660f2& threadid=25313

Thanks.

[dbhstockton]

I've read the SSP thread; it pretty much covers it. What exactly do you need help with?

[Merry]

I posted this on behalf of SSP.com member, Dayna, who is looking for a source to confirm that the building depicted in the painting is, in fact, Hampshire House. The story behind the painting certainly indicates that it is but perhaps because of the artist's abstract interpretation, there is some doubt. I can find no reference to this event anywhere other than directly related to Kahlo's painting.

[fioco]

Try the following link:
http://www.phxart.org/el_suicido.html

http://www.phxart.org/images/kahlo_dh.jpg

Text from above link:
This disturbing image of suicide was painted by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The subject is Dorothy Hale, a beautiful society woman who became despondent and threw herself from the window of her New York apartment.

Kahlo records a crisis, but she does not include the customary tribute. Instead, she matter-of-factly describes the horrible event in the inscription, which is written in Spanish. The English translation is:

In New York City on the 21st of October 1938, at 6:00 in the morning, Dorothy Hale committed suicide by throwing herself from a very high window in the Hampshire House. In her memory [...], this retablo was executed by Frida Kahlo.
Part of the third line has been erased. Another part of the painting also was changed: an angel once appeared at the top. These erasures were made in response to the violent reaction from Clare Boothe Luce, who commissioned the work.

Image reproduction authorized by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura.

The painting is in the collection of the Phoenix Art Museum http://www.phxart.org/