Alice Sedgwick Wohl didn’t think much of her little sister Edie Sedgwick — the incandescent Warhol superstar and pop art icon who set 1960s New York ablaze with her gamine beauty, silver-haired mane ...
Edie Sedgwick was the “It Girl” of the mid-1960s. Known primarily as pop artist Andy Warhol’s muse, she starred in many of his movies, including Poor Little Rich Girl, Vinyl and Chelsea Girls. Her ...
The original Chelsea Girl is returning to her old stomping ground tonight. An artwork by the late actress and model Edie Sedgwick is going on view at the Chelsea Hotel for the first time, ahead of a ...
From March 1965 until January 1966, New York City was beguiled by an unexpected "it" couple. Andy Warhol — effete, strange-looking with his pallid skin and silver wig — was emerging as the principal ...
In 1985, while driving their Stutz Blackhawk home, the painter Andrew Wyeth turned to Betsy, his manager and wife of forty-five years, and told her that he’d been keeping a secret. In the loft of a ...
Sedgwick's father struggled with mental illness. Edie's father, Frances Minturn Sedgwick, spent his teenage years in and out of psychiatric clinics. He was diagnosed with manic-depressive psychosis ...