The American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died on Feb. 22 at age 101, drew on Jewish culture and history for inspiration in celebratory odes and at times of tragedy.
The Yonkers-born Ferlinghetti, whose mother, Clemence Mendes-Monsanto, was of Sephardic Jewish origin, was an avid painter in addition to his accomplishments as writer and editor.
One Ferlinghetti poem cites the Russian Jewish artist Marc Chagall to express cultural exuberance from disobeying maternal advice. Ferlinghetti’s poem, which takes its title from the first line, begins:
“Don’t let that horse/ eat that violin/ cried Chagall’s mother/ But he/ kept right on
painting/And became famous/ And kept on painting/ The Horse With Violin In Mouth/ And when he finally finished it/ he jumped up upon the horse/and rode away/ waving the violin…”
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MARY DILL HENRY: LOVE JAZZ OPENS AT BERRY CAMPBELL
NEW YORK, New York
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Mary Dill Henry, Love Jazz, 1965, acrylic on canvas, 49 3/4 x 71 1/4 inches.
Berry Campbell is pleased to announce a rare exhibition of paintings from 1965 to 1970 by Mary Dill Henry (1913-2009).
In her mid-50s by this time, Henry created her signature style, synthesizing past and present art movements into bold and striking compositions. Oscillating shapes form kinetic patterns and Op Art illusions in works from this time. Influenced by her studies in the 1940s with the Bauhaus artist, László Moholy-Nagy, Henry also maintained the utopian ideals associated with Constructivism, as well the principle behind the de Stijl movement, that art and life are inseparable. This is Berry Campbell’s first exhibition of paintings by Mary Dill Henry after announcing exclusive representation in November 2020.
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