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the most difficult time in her life was the period spent in New York
from 1935 to 1942. She was in a foreign country; her husband had
difficulty reestablishing his medical practice and she tried, with
limited success, to make a profession out of commercial art. She was
wide open to the new environment, organized an exhibition of the art of New
Americans at the World's Fair, tutored New York University art
history graduate students in German, making permanent friends and
admirers of them in the process. She turned potential disaster into
creative, humane activity and this seems to have been the real legacy
that is preserved among those who knew her. |
