Artists Unframed by Merry Forresta

Author:Merry Forresta [Foresta A. Merry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2015-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

British author E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was nearly seventy and a celebrity when this charming snapshot was made. His novels, among them A Room with a View (1908) and A Passage to India (1924), examine class and cultural difference and hypocrisy in the early years of the twentieth century; they were avidly read on both sides of the Atlantic. This photo, saved in the Papers of George Tooker (1920–2011), was most likely made during a 1947 gathering at the summer house of Jared and Margaret French in Provincetown, Massachusetts. We don’t know if Tooker, then a twenty-seven-year-old aspiring painter, took the photo or was there when the picture was made or if his lover at the time, artist Paul Cadmus, brought it back as a souvenir. It was a complicated vacation household: Cadmus was also Jared French’s lover while the latter was married to Margaret. If Tooker was present, he was part of an ongoing summer-long party that might at any time include other artists, poets, and writers, such as dance critic and cultural impresario Lincoln Kirstein, who within a few years became Tooker’s most important champion.

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