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The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly; Portraits and Sketches, 1942–2011
By Schloss, Edith
- ISBN
- 9780374190088
- Publisher
- Farrar
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Starred Review on November 19, 2021 | Social Sciences
A posthumous memoir of abstract expressionist artist Edith Schloss, compiled by her longtime editor Mary Venturini. In 1942, German-born Schloss (1919–2011) moved to New York with her lover Heinz Lagerhans, also a refugee, to study at the Art Students League. She was soon embedded in the circle of talented artists who inhabited the loft district of lower Manhattan. They gravitated toward the area because rents were low, lofts were spacious and sunny, and to mee...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
