1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 O D 15 D 24 15 Gramercy Park South . 19 Williamsburg Bridge Entrance 23 5th Avenue at 8th Street 30 “Still, perhaps my readers are wondering if generally the models for the 44 20 Brooklyn and Manhattan The Brevoort Hotel (Café) National Arts Club artist who do credible work are sincerely in love with their profession 19 (Daniel Chester French) Mabel Dodge holds her “evenings” This club has always accepted women and look upon their posing in the nude merely as a contribution to art since its founding in 1898. These two sculptures are presently here with Margaret Sanger and and a very presaie business. And, if so, why it is to say of a girl located in front of the Brooklyn John Reed. The café is also one of 25 East 22nd Street at 3rd Avenue Luncheon ‘She is a model,’so often causes 19 Museum. Duchamp’s favorite hangouts. 45 9 1 7 The Bowery at Bleecker 16 51 West 10th Street The Women’s Trade Union League a cynical lifting of eyebrows.” 19 January 22, 1908, Katie Mulcahey Studios of Adolph Weinman, Isidore opens a luncheon for working girls. is arrested under the newly passed Konti, Robert Aitken, Daniel Chester 26 24th Street, near 8th Avenue Sullivan Ordinance, prohibiting women French, Frederick McMonnies, Oscar Charles Herber Artist Studio H L 19 27 to smoke in public. She says in night H. Sholin (photographer) 26th Street at Lexington 4 6 8 A 1 Bowling Green J court, “I’ve got as much right to smoke ” 9th Regiment Armory 1 East 70th Street 19 United States Customs House as you have. I never heard of this new The 1913 Armory Show exhibition The Frick Collection The Four Continents law and I don’t want to hear about it. introduces the modern art movement 2 Pediment Figures at the entrance (Daniel Chester French) No man shall dictate to me.” But she to the U.S. Works by Matisse, (Sherry Fry) 19 1 Following . 60 Wall Street Picasso, Van Gogh, and Gauguin K 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street 47 7 cannot pay the $5 fine and is sent to … 1 J. P. Morgan & Company 19 jail. are displayed. This departure from Metropolitan Museum of Art On September 16, 1920, anarchists 8 135 MacDougal Street conventional representational art Memory (Daniel Chester French) set off a wagon full of explosives, For some years this building houses is considered by some a threat to Victory Mourning killing 30 people and injuring 100. B 19 the radical Washington Square wholesome American values. (Daniel Chester French) 48 6 1 F Walking along, finding in her returned gaze a line of demarcation demarcation of line a gaze returned her in finding along, Walking that inserts into the everyday, not another truth, but meaning. Meaning that does not add up to a coherent story, a biography that can be written fragmentation unfolds and along the lines of a complex struggle shelved, of a but Munson instead Audrey that rights, have to voice, a have to woman young in its present shared and shares still today with many others. Passing by, now and again now, always only in the present moment, quiet sculptures these become us for a gentle reminder presence of of endless the moments, of many radical condensations of personal fabric the into woven narratives and political Book Shop, from which Liberal Club 8th Avenue at 32nd Street mapped, and noticed once statues, as body her York, New in Back creates a frame, that inevitably binds the public to the a private, past to a A future. text, upon a text, upon a text, upon a text of our city. Descending Night (Adolph Weinman) 19 37 D members more often borrowed than Pennsylvania Station 215 West 57th Street bought. Night and Day (Adolph Weinman) “The studio is a veritable marketplace of vanities — American Fine Arts Building F 9 Washington Square Park These four pairs of sculptures were the vanity of the artist that must be pampered and Home of the National Sculpture The Baroness Elsa von Freytag- removed. Some were last seen in a humored; the vanity of beautiful women that must Society, and the Art Student’s League. 19 49 4 5 4 1 Loringhoven, a Dada artist who at dump in New Jersey. be played on, drawn out and fostered, Djuna Barnes studies here in 1915. 19 28 H 59th Street at Fifth Avenue times works as an artist’s model, is Broadway at 39th Street or in so many cases, submitted to.” seen marching in the park wearing medications. took never that lady old nice very A On April 9, 1915, after leaving the Grand Army Plaza “ s 40th birthday, a local judge committed her to St. Pulitzer Fountain (Pomona) ’ Opera, Karl Bitter is struck by a car an inverted coal scuttle for a hat, a 19 vegetable grater as a broach, long ice- and fatally injured. (Karl Bitter) 50 4 1 29 Broadway at 40th Street I Columbus Circle and 59th Street 19 cream spoons for earrings, and metal tea-balls attached to her pendulant Metropolitan Opera House SW entrance to Central Park In January 1907, Richard Strauss Maine Monument (Attilio Piccirilli) 2 233 Broadway breasts. 10 and Oscar Wilde’s opera Salome 19 147 West 4th Street Lawrence Psychiatric Lawrence Center, Psychiatric in Ogdensburg, to NY, cure a mental blight. Planned as a brief stay, as her it remembers turned into 65 years. A nurse Audrey Munson Audrey around Manhattan, we miss already the majority of the life she lived. She left the island sometime had in traveled, she the made some movies. 1920s. She did She not get paid, finding she mother, her With job. a without means, without suddenly herself odd was she thought there Locals NY. Mexico, of village the to moved and her work as a model was considered indecent. Soon after their they dogs, 2 had She survived. but herself kill to tried Audrey arrival say, and used to roller-skate on dirt roads around town. On June 8, 1931, Audrey A half niece of calls Audrey the hospital in the late 1980, to inquire finds surprise her to and aunt famous once her of remains the about Audrey still alive. Reluctantly at first Audrey meets her niece. They stay in touch. In these years Audrey has a family again. She dies at Ogdensburg in 1996, and is buried in New Haven in an unmarked from her time grave. Not at many recorded Ogdensburg, stories are not many questions asked about intelligence and madness. There is no fame in the struggles of the mind, especially not if the mind in Woolworth Building story every in off cut a is there map, the of edge the Like question belongs to a woman. 51 3 is performed, shocking the public; 3 1 Centre Street Polly’s Restaurant 17 5 Bank Street 191 further performances of Salome are The first subway, the IRT line, opens After several relocations, houses Home of the writer Willa Cather, who K canceled. on October 27, 1904. the restaurant run by anarchist Polly came to New York in 1906 at the age B Holliday and the Liberal Club (1913 Woman The s 1 Centre Street of 31 to work at McClure’s magazine. G Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street ’ –1919), frequented by radical writers 19 Municipal Building Cather moves to Bank Street with her New York Public Library 52 2 1 and intellectuals. Polly’s also serves Civic Fame (Adolph Weinman) partner Edith Lewis, where she lives Beauty (Frederick McMonnies) 19 as the meeting place of Heterodoxy, C Manhattan Bridge Entrance until the end of her life. 30Bryant Park ? Did she see the women 8 an organization that promoted feminist 18 ? Did she know of Emma Spirit of Commerce (Carl A. Heber) 66 West 12th Street ? What was she afraid of? Statue honoring Gertrude Stein, ? What about Djuna Barnes 16 11 causes, described by Mabel Dodge as 38 The New School for Social Research installed in 1992, is a casting based 19 , when she passed by the picket 53 a club for “unorthodox women, women 13 1 N Founded in 1919 by a group of on a model made by Jo Davidson 1 who did things and did them openly.” 19 distinguished, independent-minded (1883–1952) in Paris in 1923. scholars. 31 234 West 42nd Street Liberty Theater “I have found that the artists say that their best models have always lived now about birth control? Did she have sex? 19 ? Did she read Margaret Sanger Margaret read she Did ? In 1915 Griffith’s feature length film 17 54 simple lives — and abandoned corsets.” Munson did not only pose in the studios during this But Audrey yet find I writing her In newspaper. local a for wrote also she time, artists the describes she author an As story. another image, another studios as a marketplace of vanity, speaks about the construction of beauty, about exploitation and the power of men around her. 10 The Birth of a Nation opens here. 43 19 21 Pier 54 at West 13th Street The National Association for the Duchamp ? Or Marcel Advancement of Colored People 20 Chelsea Piers ? Did she 23 (NAACP) protests it by publishing a s Restaurant or the Liberal Club ’ On April 1912, 703 Titanic survivors 19 42 pamphlet titled “Fighting a Vicious 55 9 arrive aboard the Cunard Liner 0 With With men or women? Did she know Heterodoxy? Did she go to Polly lines? Did she think of herself as a feminist? She gave $5 to the Suffragists in 1917 but did she ever vote in her life? She writes dismissively about the Bohemia of Greenwhich Village, but was she Was values? her in conservative too as upon looked herself she caught in a mainstream movement that was idealizing antiquity was turning their back on it, the avant-garde in a moment where and Willa Cather Willa and She advocates for her profession, defending colleagues, their herself hard labor and creative and act while posing.