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...second marriage (to Edwin Dodge, Boston architect) her salon in Florence was famed throughout Europe. "Everybody" in the art world visited her, from Gertrude Stein to Eleonora Duse. In Manhattan she was a hospitable hostess to Lincoln Steffens, the late John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Emma Goldman, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Edmond Jones. She was largely responsible for the art exhibition which featured the famed cubist A Nude Descending the Staircase. Her fourth and current husband, full-blooded Taos Indian Tony Luhan, she met when he was acting as model for her third, Painter Maurice Sterne. Born into Buffalo society...
...VECHTEN (Carl) The Tattooed Countess. First Published Edition. New York...
After that Collector Van Vechten decided that Iowa's folk songs were the song of Iowa's birds, the rustling of her corn...
More sophisticated memories follow: anecdotes of George Moore; the predicament of a group of U. S. esthetes stranded in Europe at the outbreak of the War; a trip with his wife Fania Marinoff to the Bahamas, where he saw an orgiastic revival meeting of black Holy Jumpers. Sophisticate Van Vechten wondered what Huysmans would have thought of such goings-on. Black Priscilla, maid at his hotel, had no such complicated thoughts: "I'm a Baptist. ... I don't hold by those jumpers. The females jump, and the males jump after them...
...Author? For 20 years a musical and dramatic critic droop-headed Sophisticate Van Vechten wrote his first novel, Peter Whiffle, at 42. Since then The Blind Bow-Boy, The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Spider Boy, Parties have ripened his racy fame. Besides memories he collects autographs, postcards, pamphlets, book jackets, cats...