But this splendid memoir is more than a who’s who of famous figures. Friends were friends, and they brought you their pictures,” sometimes for criticism and encouragement, sometimes as gifts. “In those days,” writes Schloss, “nobody was anybody. At the time, most were aspiring rather than acclaimed artists. She enrolled at the Art Students League and soon moved to Chelsea, where artists had taken over cheap, barely habitable lofts-“huge stages for work and for a whole new free way of living.” Her circle quickly expanded to include Fairfield Porter William de Kooning (she was dazzled by his “absolute sunstruck power”) his acerbic wife, Elaine photographer Rudy Burckhardt, whom Schloss later married composers Elliott Carter and John Cage poets Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch and scores of others. Born into an affluent Jewish family in Germany, Schloss was sent abroad to school by 1938, she found her way to London and, a few years later, arrived in New York. An intimate portrait of artists and their worlds.įrom assorted notes and manuscripts, Burckhardt and Venturini have assembled a vibrant memoir by artist and critic Edith Schloss (1919-2011), Burckhardt’s mother, who lived and worked in New York City in the 1940s and ’50s and, after 1962, in Italy.
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