'Visions Of A Gilded Age' Film Series: Portrait Of A Lady

"Visions of a Gilded Age" film series: Portrait of a Lady (1996, 142 min.) Jane Campion directs Nicole Kidman as the James heroine Isabel Archer, a spirited and independent American woman abroad, who falls under the sway of worldly Europeans Barbara Hershey and John Malkovich. Out of the same era and milieu as the American artists featured in the Clark’s summer exhibition, Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly , the novels of Henry James and Edith Wharton have elicited a wide range of film adaptations, which this series, "Visions of a Gilded Age: Film Adaptations of Henry James and Edith Wharton," will survey.