The letters between Taeuber-Arp and her patroness, Annie Müller-Widmann, show the usually invisible tending that goes into an artist-patron relationship.
Karen Chernick
Karen Chernick is a writer based in Philadelphia, by way of Tel Aviv. Her work has also appeared on Artsy, The Forward, Curbed Philadelphia, Eater, PhillyVoice, and Time Out Philadelphia.
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A History of Motherhood Through Design
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The Bite-Sized Art of Chewing Gum
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How Does Plastic Age? Conservators Are Taking a Closer Look
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How Lee Miller Cast Her Surrealist Eye on British Vogue
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100 Women Street Photographers Freeze the Exquisitely Mundane
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With a Room of Her Own, Emily Mason’s Ethereal Abstractions Bloomed
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The Remarkable Success Story of Rosalba Carriera, the Original “Queen of Pastel”
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