BIB_ID
291849
Accession number
MA 5133.20
Creator
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942.
Display Date
[1915 or later].
Credit line
Purchased in honor of Francis S. Mason on the occasion of his tenth anniversary at the Morgan Library, 1985.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Arnold Genthe moved from San Francisco to New York in 1911, and he first met and photographed Isadora Duncan in 1915.
Part of a collection of correspondence to and from Isadora Duncan and a printed program for a 1916 dress rehearsal. Items are cataloged individually in 21 records (MA 5133.1-21); see main record for more information.
Written from his studio at "1 W 46th St." No salutation. Signed Arnold Genthe.
Part of a collection of correspondence to and from Isadora Duncan and a printed program for a 1916 dress rehearsal. Items are cataloged individually in 21 records (MA 5133.1-21); see main record for more information.
Written from his studio at "1 W 46th St." No salutation. Signed Arnold Genthe.
Provenance
Purchased in honor of Francis S. Mason on the occasion of his tenth anniversary at the Morgan Library in 1985.
Summary
Sending a package of books for Duncan and her girls. Describing his feelings at "what [she] gave [them] this afternoon" [in a performance?], noting that "it was a monumentally inspiring noble thing, which is bound to make even blind New York see, and deaf ears hear: the beginning of a revolution, [word illegible], liberality."
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