Mina Loy's Artwork
Mina Loy's Artwork
& Chronological List of Mina Loy's
Exhibitions
Mina
Loy photographed by Stephen Hawck 1907 from
Mina
Loy's Lunar Odyssey
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Self-Portrait
(c. 1905) from The Last Lunar Beadeker. Ed. Roger L
Conover. Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982.
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Mina
Loy & Modern Art is constructed by Ray Schulte
and designed by Gillian Fen.
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This cluster of web pages focuses on the
work of the poet and artist Mina Loy (1882-1966), especially in the
ways her poetic endeavors were shaped and defined by her work as a
visual artist. Loy's verbal and visual productions were partially
defined by the major art movements of the early decades of the
twentieth century--including Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and
Surrealism--even as she helped to define those movements...
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The
image on the right side is a box construction that Joseph
Cornell made. It features a picture of Loy taken by Man Ray.
It is from Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery
edited by Ingrid Schaffner and Lisa Jacobs (Cambridge, MA: MIT P,
1998).
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Loy
sketched this pencil-portrait, entitled "Teri," in 1954. Teri was the
wife of Hans Fraenkel, and Hans had been married from 1944-1949 to
Loy's youngest daughter Fabienne. The original backing for the portrait
contains the inscription: "TERI BY MINA LOY / JULY 1954 / ASPEN,
COLORADO /To Alicia / With all my love / Aunt Teri." James Jaffe
provided the scanned image of the portrait. The drawing is currently
owned by Raphael Schulte.
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The
portraits of the artists
and
poets by Mina Loy
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Some drawings by Mina Loy |
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Other forms of artwork by Mina Loy |
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Chronological List of
Mina Loy's Exhibitions:
This list, possibly incomplete, is
compiled from Carolyn Burkes' biography of Loy, Roger Conover's
detailed introduction to The Last Lunar Baedeker and Mareesa Januzzi's
annotated bibliography in Mina Loy: Woman and Poet, edited by Maeera
Shreiber and Keith Tuma.
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1904
Salon d' Automne: 6 watercolors |
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1905
Salon des Beaux-Arts: 2 watercolors |
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1905
Salon d' Automne: 4 drawings / all portraits of women [exhibit also
included Matisse, Derain, Rouault, Vlaminck] |
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1906
Salon des Beaux-Arts |
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1906
Salon d' Automne: watercolors, including Love among the Ladies and La
Maison en papier [Loy received the honor of being asked to become a
permanent member of the Salon] |
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1910
New English Art Club: 1 portrait called Jemima |
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1912
Carfax Gallery, London: exhibit of "drawings" that included Love among
the Ladies [Loy's first one woman show, on the way to London from her
home in Florence she stopped in Paris to help select the 1912 Salon d'
Automne] |
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1913
Salon d' Automne: one oil painting and three drawings |
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1914
Friday Club (which had connections to the Bloomsbury group): two
portraits (Woman's Head and Maria con Bruno) |
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1914
Esposizone Libera Futurista Internazionale (First Free Exhibition of
International Futurist Art) in Rome. Loy represents England: three
portraits of Marinetti and a "dynamism of the subconscious" |
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1914 An
exhibit at the New York Architectual League: two designs for wall
decorations and Love among the Ladies |
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1916
Annual Florence exhibit, including Woman with Child |
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1917
Society of Independent Artists at Grand Central Palace in New York
City: one work |
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1921
Belmaison Gallery: "several" of Loy's drawings, including a portrait
with two gypsies and a young girl, as well "a series of heads inspired
by Joella" (B303) |
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1923
Salon d'Automne: one painting [Lunar Baedecker published] |
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1925
Exhibit of six "Jaded Blossoms" and paintings, including portraits of
Freud, Marinetti, Papini, and Stein at Little Gallery |
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1925
Macy's Gallery, Namm Gallery, Cargoes Gallery, Little Gallery: exhibit
of paper cutouts and flower arrangements known as "Jaded Blossoms"] |
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1925(?)
Loy opens Galleries Mina Loy in Paris, selling her lamps |
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1932-36
Loy is Paris representative for Julian Levy Gallery |
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1933
"Exhibition of Literature and Poetry in Painting since 1850" Wadsworth
Athenaeum, included Loy's "Faces" |
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1933
"Paintings of Mina Loy" at Julien Levy Gallery |
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[Lunar
Baedeker and Timetables published in 1958] |
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1959
"Constructions" at Bodley Gallery |
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1959
Loy received Copley Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art |
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Some
portraits of the artists and poets by Mina Loy:
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This
drawing of Constantin
Brancusi is done by Mina Loy around 1924. It is from The
Last Lunar Baedeker edited by Roger L. Conover (Highlands,
NC: Jargon Society, 1982).
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This
drawing of Jules
Pascin is done by Mina Loy around 1923. It is from The
Last Lunar Baedeker edited by Roger L. Conover (Highlands,
NC: Jargon Society, 1982).
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The Portrait of Man Ray
from Strange Bedfellows: The First
American Avant-Garde.
Steven Watson. New York: Abbeyville P, 1991.
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The Portrait of Stephen Haweis
from Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy.
Carolyn Burke. New York: Farrar, 1996.
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Carl
Van Vechten, Mina
Loy: American Modernist Poet. Virginia M. Kouidis. Baton
Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, 1980. Np
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Drawing of James Joyce by Mina Loy for Vanity Fair,
Paris, 1922, from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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The Portrait of Mariane Moore
from Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde.
Steven Watson. New York: Abbeyville P, 1991.
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Some
drawings by Mina Loy:
Angels, from The Last
Lunar Beadeker.
Ed. Roger L Conover. Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982.
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Baby's Head is from the Dial
72.2 (1922): np
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Teasing a Butterfly (1902) is
from Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture
from the Julien Levy Collection. New York; Sotheby, 1981. p.
75
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Snails, from The Last
Lunar Beadeker.
Ed. Roger L Conover. Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982.
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Fresco in Pramousquier, south of France
(1923)
from The Last Lunar Beadeker. Ed. Roger L Conover.
Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982.
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Stars ceiling light and wall
sconces, by Mina Loy, c. 1927,
from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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Moons I (c.1932) from Julien
Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery.
Ed. Ingrid Schaffner and Lisa Jacobs. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1998. p. 111
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Moons II, from The
Last Lunar Beadeker.
Ed. Roger L Conover. Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982.
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La maison en papier, drawing and
gouache by Mina Loy, 1906, from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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Women Dancing, (early 1920s)
from The Last Lunar Beadeker. Ed. Roger L Conover.
Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982.
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Other
forms of artwork by Mina Loy:
Househunting, Mina Loy
assemblage c. 1950
from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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Communal Cot (early 1950s), from
The Last Lunar Beadeker.
Ed. Roger L Conover. Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982.
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Celestial Globe, lamp by Mina
Loy, c. 1927,
from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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Globe Celeste (c. 1927) from Becoming
Modern: The Life of Mina Loy.
Carolyn Burke. New York: Farrar, 1996.
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Untitled assemblage by Mina Loy, private
collection, Aspen
from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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Maternity (1935) from The
Last Lunar Beadeker.
Ed. Roger L Conover. Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982.
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No
Parking (early
1950s), from The Last Lunar Beadeker.
Ed. Roger L Conover. Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982.
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Five of Loy's Photographs
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Mina Loy nude, photograph by Stephen Haweis
from Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy.
Carolyn Burke. New York: Farrar, 1996.
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Mina Loy with a cigarette, photograph by Stephen
Haweis
from Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy.
Carolyn Burke. New York: Farrar, 1996.
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Mina Loy, Paris, c. 1905
from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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Mina Loy, 1920, photograph by Man Ray
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Mina Loy Aspen, 1957, Photo by Jonathan Williams
from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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Brancusi's studio, Paris: Constantin Brancusi,
Tristan Tzara, unidentified woman,
Mina Loy, Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson, from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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Bums Praying, assemblage by Mina
Loy, with Marcel Duchamp
from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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Mina Loy with a child,
from The Last Lunar Beadeker. Ed. Roger L Conover.
Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982.
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Stephen Haweis and Mina Loy, Paris, c. 1905
from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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"Little Review" reunion: Jane Heap, Mina Loy,
and Ezra Pound, Paris, c. 1923
from Jacket
Magazine Homepage.
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