POSTWAR BLUES
Iris was living alone as the war came to a close in 1945. Although Rockefeller and Whitney returned as board chairman and president, respectively, of the Museum,¹ the funding Abbott had found so plentiful during the government-contract war period was disappearing. Iris found herself confronted with...
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| Published in | Lady in the Dark p. 327 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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United States
Columbia University Press
01.04.2014
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| Summary: | Iris was living alone as the war came to a close in 1945. Although Rockefeller and Whitney returned as board chairman and president, respectively, of the Museum,¹ the funding Abbott had found so plentiful during the government-contract war period was disappearing. Iris found herself confronted with a multitude of new challenges. Her marriage to Abbott had never been ideal. She frequently saw other men and even a person as proper as Margaret Barr believed her to “pick up men at Schraffts.”² “I know she had enough lovers,” Philip Johnson also recalled, “but they were all taxi drivers or kids in |
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| ISBN: | 9780231165785 0231165781 |
| DOI: | 10.7312/columbia/9780231165785.003.0032 |