Bertha also had exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both exhibited their work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and most major museums and galleries in the US. In 1925, they showed their work at the Nemzeti Szalon in Budapest, and in 1926, they had a joint exhibition of their portraits in the US. From the mid-thirties until World War II, Bertha and Elena divided their time between their home in Budapest and a home on the ocean at Ventnor, NJ (the next city over from Atlatnic City, NJ). Later on, their subjects included American heiress Gladys Vanderbilt (Countess László Széchenyi), President Theodore Roosevelt s granddaughter Paulina Longworth and former President Dwight D. As Patricia Fazekas points out, 'Growing up in a family of privilege, they seemed to have unusual access to many illustrious people.' So we should not be surprised to find among their subjects members of high society, such as Count Andrássy Gyula, the Russian-born Princess Baby Galitzine, and Admiral Horthy Miklós, the Regent. They studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Budapest, at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and painted portraits of European nobility. Their parents encouraged them, and had the means to send them to the best art schools of the time. Both sisters showed artistic potential early, beginning to paint at four or five years of age. Their father was a lawyer and their mother a student of Franz Liszt s last living pupil. 18, 1948, announcing books that were published on that day, 2) NY Times full front page, section 2, March 25, 1962, written by Lewis Funke about Jerome Kilty's dramatization of Thornton Wilder's 'Ides of March.' Bertha de Hellebranth and her sister Elena were born into a cultured upper-class family in Budapest, Bertha in 1899, Elena in 1897. Many thanks again for your expressive letter, Sincerely Yours, Thornton Wilder.' ALSO included are newspaper clippings on 'The Ides of March,' some of which are, 1) NY Times, Feb.

I remember with much pleasure the congenial evening at Miss Taylor's home and the drive home with yourself and your sister. All his friends, too, are writing one another in dismay and grief at his death. Connecticut,' and the letter states, 'April 20-1946, Dear Miss Hellebranth, Many thanks for thinking of me in reference to Ned Sheldon's death. The autographed handwritten letter has the letterhead, '50 Deepwood Drive, Hamden 14. Signed & inscribed in pen on pre-title page by Thornton Wilder, 'For Elena de Hellebranth and Bertha de Hellebranth with the regaqrd of Thornton Wilder, Atlantic City, NJ, March 15 1948.' Also included is a autographed letter signed (ALS), handwritten on note paper, that was mailed to Miss Elena Hellbranth, envelope is postmarked New Haven, Conn Apr.

The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder