Two Houses. Two Painters. Two Parents.

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Eliza Anderson
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Hundreds of Drawings Turn Up by My Father, Lennart Anderson
Better title: “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” - after Delmore Schwartz
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Jealousy
Our parents loved us. I do know that ...
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Eliza Anderson
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Celebrating Mary Jane
Yesterday was my writing mentor's memorial service. My story with Mary Jane Dickerson is also the story of how I came to write about my parents.
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Eliza Anderson
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In the Bedroom of Lennart Anderson
This story just had to be told
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Eliza Anderson
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On Losing My Writing Mentor
Learning of the death of Mary Jane Phillips Dickerson
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Eliza Anderson
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Life and Death in the Studio With Lennart Anderson
I found a YouTube clip of my late father mixing paint
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My Strange Inheritance - Lennart Anderson’s Jupiter and Antiope
The painting is on view at steven harvey fine art projects in New York through October 5th, 2024
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Eliza Anderson
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The Meaning of Wallpaper
Thank you, Lindsay Johnstone, for the prompt.
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Eliza Anderson
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Minimalism
Drawings by the minimalist sculptor Fred Sandback turned up in the loft. Then I found the story I wrote in college about the relationship he had with my…
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Eliza Anderson
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On Art and Obsessions and a Dollhouse in Brooklyn
“All my work of the last fifty years, all my subjects, have found their inspiration in my childhood” - Louise Bourgeois
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Sketchbook Finds From 1956
Mimi’s Ab-Ex moment
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Two Houses. Two Painters. Two Parents.
Two Houses. Two Painters. Two Parents.
Stories of art, feminism, grief, and Time excavated from the Soho loft where I grew up. Stories of life with my long-divorced parents, the painters Mimi Weisbord and Lennart Anderson, illustrated with their work.
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Links
Two Houses, A Memoir of Art and Divorce
website for the memoir-in-progress
Letters From the Loft
Painters who wrote my parents in Rome

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