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...secret, might have looked like the one-man show of a promising, well-trained youth, at home in a lot of media: oil, water color, gouache, lithography, etching, drawing. Actually, Carlen's exhibit was the work of two artists. They were identical twins: small, redheaded Freda & Ida Leibovitz...
...lived in bitter poverty. Morris Kellerman, president of American Lending Libraries (drugstore chain), discovered them, enabled the family to find a decent home. Samuel Fleisher, public-spirited Philadelphian, crusader for "Cultural Olympics" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), got the twins in the Graphic Sketch Club which he supported. At 14 Freda & Ida were girl wonders who insisted on sitting side by side in class, sometimes could not tell their own sketchbooks apart...
...high school, the Leibovitz twins made one of their rare joint pictures, a mural on which right-handed Freda worked leftward, southpaw Ida in the opposite direction until they met in the centre. The whole thing looked like one artist's work. When the Leibovitz twins, tramping through Philadelphia streets, painted the same subject, their conceptions were almost identical. In the contests in which...
...Freda & Ida won dozens of prizes, judges were often confused: Eberhard Faber (pencils) put Freda first ($50), Ida second ($25), while the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts reversed the order. Finally the twins thought perhaps they had better get away from each other's influence. Freda went to the Academy; Ida stayed at Moore Institute. It didn't work. When the twins graduated separately, they still painted alike...
Like most identical twins, Freda & Ida talk as one person, in a continuous flow of words. Sample: "(Ida) People have always tried to separate us, but we prefer to be together. (Freda) We seem to be sympathetic types; there is something we get from one another. (Ida) Besides it really increases our production, people think we are bears for work because we do two pictures while someone else does one. (Freda) We are really very prolific...