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workspace for artists. Sitting still for a moment, time unravels 240 Centre Street Centre 240 (Carl Heber) A. (Carl B A 3 3

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around me. I look out the window. My eyes travel over the bridges, 233 Centre Street Street Centre Street Centre 60 Wall Street Wall 60 22 4 4

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suddenly meet the gaze of a woman . Across , she wages,

stands face to face: golden, barely dressed, balancing delicately on B D ’ O s, s, B I

top of a ball at the tip of the Municipal building. A fresh breeze seems in her face. For a moment I allow myself to be amazed. The 19 23 law and I don I and law new this of heard never I have. you as who did things and did them openly. them did and things did who Union Local 25 Local Union acquitted. are and are owners tried homicide for negligent jail. jail. to sent is and fine $5 the pay cannot located in front of the Brooklyn Brooklyn the of Museum. front in located presently are two These French) Chester (Daniel Manhattan and Brooklyn bought. bought. than borrowed often more Square members Club Liberal which from Shop, Book radical the houses building this years some For court, night in says She public. in smoke to women prohibiting Ordinance, Sullivan passed newly the under Mulcahey arrested is Katie 1908, 22, January declared now.declared offer a resolution that a general strike be me. to dictate shall man No Holliday and the Liberal Club (1913 (1913 Club Liberal the and Holliday Polly houses anarchist by run restaurant the relocations, several After n itletas Polly intellectuals. and – 14 termsgeneral in to talk whospeakers listening of tired am I conditions. intolerable against strike on are who “ department fire the because death their whom to jump of many employees, 146 female kills fire a 1911, 25, March On Factory Shirtwaist Triangle tea-balls attached to her pendulant pendulant breasts. her to attached tea-balls metal and earrings, for spoons cream a ice- long as a broach, grater vegetable hat, a for scuttle coal inverted wearing an park the in marching seen a club for for a club as Dodge Mabel by described causes, feminist promoted that an organization Heterodoxy, of place meeting the as ersnaie ot Te company The out. representatives union keep to young in locked were workers The collapsed. fire had the escape and windows floor 9th the eog o h Lde Wit Maker Waist Ladies the to belong more than 9 weeks. lasts strike The support. immediate languagesmanyroom,across winsthe Residences of Daniel . French. Chester Daniel of Residences Street 8th anno and floor the on up stand to helped is line, picket a on beating a from recovering 19, washrooms. Lemlich, Clara to access limited sanitation and poor with lofts unheated dark, in wages low for work who of 25 age of the under mostly women immigrant consists audience strike. The proposed a about York hear speeches to New assemble workers 1909. garment 22, November Hall Great Union Cooper ie wrs s n artist an as at works who times artist Freytag- Dada a von Loringhoven, Elsa Baroness The Village a free and sovereign republic. republic. sovereign and free a Village Greenwich into declares group the air, the pistols cap Discharging for seats. bags water hot and drinks food, balloons, red lanterns, Chinese bring They . Square Washington of top the to staircase and hidden a climb others Duchamp Marcel Sloan, John Drick, Gertrude 1917, 23, January On Polly a a okn gr, n o those of one girl, working a am I 1919), frequented by radical writers writers radical by frequented 1919),

unfamiliar perspective lets me linger. I turn to my desk and look her 17 I stop. What am I looking at? , a body, a life lived. 994 D D 1 ’ Williamsburg Bridge Entrance Entrance Bridge Williamsburg s Restaurant Restaurant s “ McDougal Alley and 12 West West 12 and Alley McDougal Out in the street a statue, an allegory hovering over the city. I can up. Civic Fame, a statue by Adolph Weinman, commissioned by the I ’ ve got as much right to smoke smoke to right much as got ve 12 11 “ 9 unorthodox women, women women women, unorthodox

feel her agency, now and then, standing solid in her fragile nudity. City of New York. She stands for the union of the five boroughs, the 7 Arch Square Washington ’ Park Square Washington 23 s ladders cannot reach reach cannot ladders s

The Bowery at Bleecker at Bowery The 8 8 ” ’ Her call, translated intotranslated call, Her – t want to hear about it. it. about hear to want t 135 MacDougal Street MacDougal 135 The sculptures link together many histories, relations and anecdotes. 10 19

young and strong municipality. . 29 Washington Place Washington 29

147 West 4th Street 4th West 147 They are documents of emotions, of desires, of power, of money, of 24

The 20,000 strikers strikers 20,000 The from allitsperspectives. the modellearnsart he idealizesthem, even while who isacynicaboutwomen analytical sculptor, to theearnest, and anaughtychildthenext, who isagreatmanoneday “From thetemperamentalpainter,

993 exploitation, of morality, of change, of struggle, in Audrey Munson, 13 1 ’ s also serves serves also s

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in the sculptors, in the architects, in the historians, in the city, and in is model, s ” the eternal stream of passersbys. They stare back at us, untouched by she But unces, unces,

the penetration of our gaze, out living us with ease, maintained and 19 … ” 25 ’ ’ I

s s s renovated periodically by generations of conservators.

H. Sholin (photographer) (photographer) Sholin H. Oscar McMonnies, Frederick French, Chester Daniel Aitken, Robert Konti, Isidore Weinman, Adolph of Studios and Sanger caf The Reed. John Margaret with here until the end of her life. life. her of end the until lives she where Lewis, Edith partner her with Street Bank to moves Cather Mabel Dodge holds her her holds Dodge Mabel of 31 to work at at work to 31 of age the at 1906 in York New to came who Cather, Willa writer the of Home one i 11 b a ru of scholars independent-minded group a by distinguished, 1919 in Founded The New School for Social Research Duchamp The Brevoort Hotel (Caf Hotel Brevoort The “I have found that the artists say that their best models have always lived corsets.” lived abandoned and always — lives have simple models best their that say artists the that found have “I 992 1 conscription. conscription. military for to opposition imprisonment leading years to 2 sentenced and arrested are Berkman Goldman Alexander and Emma 1917, In of journal headquarters the the radicals, and and intellectuals Village gathering Greenwich for a this place is 1903, apartment in Beginning EmmaGoldman Peace Peace Court Supreme State New YorkDivision, Appellate prevent enlistment. enlistment. prevent and with recruiting obstruct charged to conspiracy and Act Espionage the under trial on put are critic Dell Floyd writer/literary and Young, cartoonist Art I. political War Eastman, World Reed, to opposition its of because 1918 the in Department by Justice suppressed is Masses magazine. The literary this left-wing of editor radical the is Eastman Max Masses The K Like the edge of the map, there is a cut off in every story…. Following ” My thoughts continue searching over the landscape of the city and over

Audrey Munson around Manhattan, we already miss the majority of 15 20 .

() Bitter) (Karl time. To my surprise, I find a name, Audrey Munson. She was the model 23 5th Avenue at 8th Street 8th at Avenue 5th 23 E ’ s favorite hangouts. hangouts. favorite s

210 East 13th Street 13th East 210 the life she lived. She left the island sometime in the 1920s. She 19 27 Madison Avenue Madison 27 for Civic Fame and many other sculptures. I start to recognize her face, I 26 1 had traveled, she made some movies. She did not get paid, finding 16 1 9 Offices Offices A 8 start to recognize her body as I walk around town. A supermodel, I think

Mother Earth. Earth. Mother 91 Greenwich Avenue Greenwich 91 McClure 51 66 West 12th Street 12th West 66 991

’ herself suddenly without means, without a job. With her mother, she s Apartment s Apartment 1

and smile, while her presence becomes increasingly intriguing. I find a Street 10th West é 17

moved to the village of Mexico, NY. Locals there thought she was odd of one also is

5 Bank Street Street Bank 5 book: American : The Extraordinary Life of Audrey Munson Model é ) ) ’

s s and her work as a model was considered indecent. Soon after their “ and Muse. I read the book and am impressed by the reconstructed life, but magazine. arrival Audrey tried to kill herself but survived. She had 2 dogs, they evenings at the same time drained by the narrative, too familiar when it comes to 19 say, and used to roller-skate on dirt roads around town. On June 27 women: young and innocent, full of desire, success, vanity, daring, struggle, 990

8, 1931, Audrey’s 40th birthday, a local judge committed her to St. ” 1 misfortune, suffering and at the end of her life a somewhat happy ending. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, in Ogdensburg, NY, to cure a mental

K blight. Planned as a brief stay, it turned into 65 years. A nurse D remain at this location for 50 years. 50 for location this at remain will It Bureau). Sanger called Margaret the later (and Bureau Research Clinical Control Birth the called clinic control birth a opens League Control Birth American the Sanger, Margaret of home the at 1923, 2, January On Margaret Sanger Margaret Salvation Army who arenotsincere.” hard workandtheoneswhofailaregenerallythose and anicediversionwillsoonfindtheirmistake.Itis “Girls whogotothestudiosposethinkingitfun Center eventually pose for their memorial. memorial. their for pose eventually in the lifeboats. lifeboats. section the in class first the from women other join to refused had who Ida, wife tas c-we o Macy of Isidor co-owner Straus, them, among people, 1,500 than more killing York New to way Liner its on sunk had Cunard The the Carpathia. aboard arrive survivors Titanic 703 1912, April On Piers Chelsea

A remembers her as “A very nice old lady that never took medications.” 19 28

21 A half niece of Audrey calls the hospital in the late 1980, to inquire o pens in 1907. 1907. in pens

Pier 54 at West 13th Street 13th West at 54 Pier 1989 21 about the remains of her once famous aunt and to her surprise finds 22

2 23 Audrey still alive. Reluctantly at first Audrey meets her niece. They

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1 House s stay in touch. In these years Audrey has a family again. She dies at

3 Ogdensburg in 1996, and is buried in New Haven in an unmarked 19

B 29 grave. Not many stories are recorded from her time at Ogdensburg, ’ 17 his and s, 1988 19 not many questions asked about intelligence and madness. There is 8 10 no fame in the struggles of the mind, especially not if the mind in 6 14 22 26 9 18 question belongs to a woman. 4 12 16 19 Beauty Beauty Library Public York New accurate, like like historically accurate, it proclaims White and the House at film the views Woodrow Wilson professor History former dump in New Jersey. Jersey. New in dump a in seen last were Some removed. were sculptures of pairs four These Day and Night Station Pennsylvania pamphlet titled titled pamphlet a publishing People by it protests Colored (NAACP) the of for Advancement Association National The Nation a of Birth The Davidson Jo (1883 by made model a on based Stein, casting a is 1992, in Gertrude installed honoring Statue injured. fatally and car a by struck is the Bitter Karl leaving Opera, after 1915, 9, April On 1898. in founding its since women accepted has always club This Club Arts National Charles Herber Artist Studio Artist Herber Charles canceled. canceled. “ n Ocr Wilde Oscar Strauss and Richard 1907, January In girls. working for luncheon a opens Film: Protest Against The Birth of a a Nation, of Birth The Against Protest Film: n 95 Griffith 1915 In Theater Liberty further performances of of public; performances further the shocking performed, is lightning. Metropolitan Opera House Opera Metropolitan h Women The Luncheon 15 to values. threat American wholesome a some art by considered is representational from conventional departure This Gauguin Matisse, displayed. and are by Gogh, Van Works Picasso, U.S. the to movement art modern exhibition the introduces Show Armory 1913 The Armory Regiment 9th he mls f filth. of miles three 11 30 25 hope tobecomesomedaytheinspiration ofagreatmasterpieceand

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1987 opportunities whichotheryoung womennevermeet.…shemay F 1952) in in 1923. in Paris in 1952) 24th Street, near 8th Avenue Avenue 8th near Street, 24th ”

(Frederick McMonnies) (Frederick which describes the film as as film the describes which F 7 F ” 27 28 24 ifth Avenue at 42nd Street 42nd at Avenue ifth

29 29 8th Avenue at 32nd Street 32nd at Avenue 8th

13 15 South Park Gramercy 15 26th Street at Lexington at Street 26th Broadway at 39th Street 39th at Broadway Broadway at 40th Street 40th at Broadway 31 ’ s Trade Union League League Union Trade s

31 234 West 42nd Street 42nd West 234 (Adolph Weinman) Weinman) (Adolph ’ s feature length film film length feature s 19

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G Avenue Salome Salome D 35 37 I are are 19 32 33 or in so many cases, submitted to.” be played on, drawn out and fostered, humored; the vanity of beautiful women that must the vanity of the artist that must be pampered and “The studio is a veritable marketplace of vanities —

1985 38 39 But Audrey Munson did not only pose in the studios during this Back in New York, her body as statues, once noticed and mapped, H L time, she also wrote for a local newspaper. In her writing I find yet creates a frame, that inevitably binds the public to the private, another image, another story. As an author she describes the artists a past to a future. A text, upon a text, upon a text, upon a text 30.

studios as a marketplace of vanity, speaks about the construction Walking along, finding in her returned gaze a line of demarcation 19 33 commercial assets M of beauty, about exploitation and the power of men around her. that inserts into the everyday, not another truth, but meaning.

young woman J 1984 Meaning that does not add up to a coherent story, a biography who makes N that can be written and shelved, but instead in its present “Every fragmentation unfolds along the lines of a complex struggle of a K O 41 young woman to have a voice, to have rights, that Audrey Munson 19 3 shared and shares still today with many others. Passing by, now 4 C 1983 and promotion of the international international avant-garde. the of promotion and study the for center a as apartment Katherine Dreier Katherine Soci the 1920 in Also program. acquisitions an and art library a reference establish art, contemporary They publications. symposia, lectures, of exhibitions regular organize artists European and American of group This (SIA). Artists Independent of Society the Stella found and to Sloan, Ray, Man helps Pach, Marin, Dreier Gleizes, Glackens, Katherine Duchamp, 1916 In to Hammerstein. to million $1.2 paid Opera Metropolitan the after 1910, in close theaters The producer publicity. get by to Hammerstein William rigged was incident The 1909. indecent in Garden the for at dancing Gertrude arrested is performer Hoffman The Opera. Metropolitan expensive comparatively the to alternative an as garden roof and theaters his opens Hammerstein Center Manhattan Garden/The Roof Hammerstein and again now, always only in

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Anonyme is founded in this this in founded is Anonyme quiet sculptures become for 19 yet held fast by the in-explicable spell which the rain threw about me.” us a gentle reminder of the in a rainstorm,

35 to think of myself as being

33 presence of endless moments, “When I took the pose he wished he asked me

1982 ’ 19 East 47th Street 47th East 19 s Home Home s 32 of many radical condensations

1481 Broadway, Broadway, 1481 of personal and political narratives woven into the fabric

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1981 42 the Women the Form Brassiere Co. By 1928, the the 1928, By Co. Brassiere Form Maiden incorporate They sizing. cup to precursor this designed sculptor, at o Nw York New of Party Peace and Freedom. Freedom. and Peace to the founding of the Woman the of founding the to leads that meeting Hall Carnegie 1914 the Catt organize Chapman and Carrie Eastman Crystal I, War World During Audrey Munson Audrey company “ the fit of their dresses on flat-chested flat-chested on dresses their of fit the sample like not did away they because brassieres give Bissett, partner, Enid her and 36 Rosenthal, Ida Store Dress 43 G flappers.

A woman posed. A city represented. A text doubled by another. andlook upon their posing in the nude merely as acontribution to art professiontheirwith love sincerelyin are crediblework do whoartist “Still, perhaps my readers are wondering if generally the models for the “Clothes ruinus.Theydoharmtoourbodiesandworsesouls.” 35 19

An allegory. Allos = other. Agoreuei = to speak (publicly), or 881 7th Avenue, Carnegie Hall Carnegie Avenue, 7th 881 37 ’ s profitswerenearly $500 ” the impulse to appreciate the transience of things and to rescue 44 Her husband, an amateur amateur an husband, Her and a very presaie business. And, if so, why it is to say of a girl 1980 ’ s International League of of League International s

3 them for eternity. I look again, this time walking on the street, 4

’ 320 West 47th Street 47th West 320 s home, 1909 home, s I look up at her and wonder what was rescued from the oblivion 36

— West 57th Street 57th West of history, a young woman’s body or a Civic Fame? As days pass later renamed renamed later 19 “In everyprofessionthereisagoaltoaccomplishwhich there mustbesomethingthemodellooksforwardto— something apartfromthehopesofeveryyounggirlfor

and I pass her, the body prevails. In stone and bronze a humble 38 spurns onthosewhohaveadoptedit,and,itisplain

79 human shape, sculpted to represent glory, power, unity, ’ – s Peace Peace s 19 1910 1910 , peace, purity, virtue... the inexpressible, the infinite, Audrey Munson was probably a girl like many others, with dreams and She advocates for her profession, defending herself and her

. . desires. In 1909 she was moved to by her mother, who was K K the highest fullness of being as it was seeking form in the colleagues, their hard labor and creative act while posing. High in search of work, and maybe also because the city was the only place for a on her stand in the midst of the studio, she confidently returns

public architecture of an emerging metropolis. The American 19 This Site ofMemory ,

divorced Catholic woman to live. Young Audrey wanted to be a dancer the gaze of the sculptor. I recognize an old struggle in the creative 39 Descending a Staircase. Staircase. a Descending n eetal Duchamp Brancusi, eventually and and Miro Gris, Braque, his Picasso, by works including displays collection, he Here intellectuals. and artists for place meeting home lively a his makes art contemporary Audrey Munson Karl Bitter Karl Arsenberg Walter Arsenberg Grand Army Plaza Army Grand Home of the National Sculpture National Society, and the the Art Student of Home Building Arts Fine American I Djuna Barnes studies here in 1915. 1915. in here studies Barnes Djuna (Karl Bitter) Bitter) (Karl (Pomona) Pulitzer a project by andrea geyer Beaux Arts. As sculptures these bodies stand still. Life safely Monument Maine Park Central to entrance SW

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and to study music. Walking down 5th Avenue, her desire to be seen was processes: the Muse and the Artist. The woman and the man. She is a model,

tucked away, drained for higher ends, under the embracing a cynical lifting of eyebrows. 19 paired with the coincidence of “being discovered” by a photographer. The informant and the maker. I also recognize a critical mind. 1891 — 1996 gaze of a public’s (eternal) melancholy. Meanwhile their lively H at Fifth at Street 59th ’ s Home Home s Upon his invitation, Audrey, still a teenager, had the courage to step a homeandhusband.“ Selected bibliography: ’ An object turned subject, and a voice speaking up over the noise counterparts of flesh and blood, of mind and soul, called for s Apartment

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From the Queen of the Artists’ Studios. Audrey Munson. 38 39 39 first in front of a camera, then in front of an artist, then in the nude. s home,1915 19 40 another kind of urgently needed public presence: Women’s of signification. But how did Audrey come to write and publish? 215 West 57th Street 57th West 215

44 West 77th Street 77th West 44 33 West 76th Street 76th West 33 40 New York American. 1921 / American Venus: The Extra- 288 West 70thStreet 25 5 8 12 Actually, I find many stories of her entry into the studios: once she is Piccirilli) (Attilio labor unions , Suffragettes , feminists , Bohemians , Was she part of a community, did she have friends? Flirtations? ’ ’ s interest in in interest s 77 ordinary Life of Audrey Munson: Model and Muse. Diane 23 alone, once with her mother, once in love with the photographer, who Who did she meet in these studios 16? Did she know of Emma so often causes 19 Rozas and Anita Bourne Gottehrer / The New York Chronology. birth control advocates . But the women’s struggles, their suddenly dies. However she enters, she quickly becomes part of a scene Goldman 20? Or Marcel Duchamp 38? What about Djuna Barnes

James Trager / The New York Timeline by David Minor / The needs, their spirits, their knowledge, did not find a similar – ’ s League. s League. ’ 1916 New York Times Historical Archive. 1905-1921 / The New appreciation that the mainstream generally offered to their s of influential sculptors, artist and their financial backers. Beauty is her and Willa Cather 17? Did she read Margaret Sanger’s The Woman Nude Nude York Municipal Archive / The archive of Justin D. White. marble equivalents. On the contrary, the real bodies were often capital. In the city’s directory of 1909, she lists herself as an actress. Rebel 23? Did she now about birth control? Did she have sex? 19 4 e Special thanks to the Cultural Council, ” t t 13 After 1915 she will call herself, in this same directory, an artist. 1

76 With men or women? Did she know Heterodoxy? Did she go to Art in General, Cynthia Chriss, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy met with rejection and sometimes with violence .

19 8 C James Baldwin is born here in 1923. 1923. in here born is Baldwin James playing here in 1927. in here playing starts Ellington Duke 1922; in Opens Club Cotton The Hospital Harlem Alma Mater Mater Alma University Columbia Audrey Munson. Munson. Audrey resembles statue the but model, the been have Mary may actress) that (an Lawton claim references Some Audrey Munson Audrey arrives in the USA. He lectures on on lectures University. Columbia at relativity He USA. the in arrives Einstein Albert scientist German 1921 Polly’s Restaurant or the Liberal Club ? Did she see the women F Descending Night Night Descending French) Chester (Daniel Mourning Victory Memory of Art Museum Metropolitan Fountain Fountain (Sherry Fry) Fry) (Sherry Figures Pediment 2 Collection Frick The K K J K Women Straus Memorial Park Straus Firemen

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Riverside Drive at 116th Street Street 116th at Drive Riverside Riverside Drive at W100th Street on that tragic day in March 1911 11? What was she afraid of? ’ s s Health Protective Association ’ s Memorial Memorial s () French) Chester (Daniel M 19 (Bruno Zimm) Zimm) (Bruno 13

Audrey Munson Broadway at Street 106th Did she know of Clara Lemlich , when she passed by the picket (Daniel Chester French) French) Chester (Daniel 42 41 41 75

lines? Did she think of herself as a feminist? She gave $5 to the quotes by Audrey Munson ’ (Augustus Lukeman) s home, 1910 home, s 43 42 University Columbia 19 Center J

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essay and photographs by andrea geyer Avenue Lenox 644 Avenue Lenox 506 Suffragists in 1917 but did she ever vote in her life? She writes 1 East 70th Street 70th East 1 44 () Piccirilli) (Attilio

at the entrance entrance the at research assistance: William Smith Broadway 4441 dismissively about the Bohemia of Greenwhich Village, but was O

map: Board of Estimate and Apportionment, Map of the city 118th Street Street 118th she herself looked upon as too conservative in her values? Was she of New York, 1915, The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal 19 –

caught in a mainstream movement that was idealizing antiquity 43 Map Division, The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and 1911 74 Tilden Foundations. in a moment where the avant-garde was turning their back on it, 19

background images: The George Grantham Bain Collection deconstructing those very values?

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