Word: loringhoven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike them, Florine Stettheimer was not in the least bohemian. The Arensbergs had bizarre figures of the Greenwich Village avant-garde like Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, the first New York punkette, who made public appearances with her hair shaved off and her scalp dyed purple. Such creatures would never have been tolerated at Stettheimer's evenings in town, where decorum prevailed, or her picnics in the country, which she painted as fetes champetres full of wispy, epicene figures...