Deaths of Artists
Jim Moske
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Deaths of Artists

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"Moske, an archivist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, delves in his textured debut into two forgotten scrapbooks of artists' obituaries that he found at the museum in 2018. Spanning from 1906 to 1929 and conveyed in the "brutal poetry" of Progressive Era journalistic prose, the obituaries occasionally taunt their subjects ("Famous Artist Dies Penniless and All Alone" is the title of an entry describing the 1908 demise of painter Imogene Robinson Morrell) and reinforce stereotypes about an artist's life being tantamount to her work (the 1911 obituary for Elizabeth St. John Mathews posits that...