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Yglesias, Helen Bassine was born on March 29, 1915 in New York City. Daughter of Solomon and Kate (Goldstein) Bassine.
(From front jacket flap This handsome book, whose illumina...)
From front jacket flap This handsome book, whose illuminating text and commentaries are by novelist Helen Yglesias, brings together for the first time all of Isabel Bishop's major works. The illustrations are grouped by motif: The Early Work, Self-Portraits, Nudes, The People of Union Square, and The Walking Pictures. More than 70 excellent full-color reproductions capture the immediacy, luminosity, and Baroque grandeur of the paintings; and the black-and white reproductions of over 175 drawings and etchings reveal Bishop's extraordinarily masterful draftsmanship. Also included in this comprehensive monograph is an afterword by Linda Weintraub, director of the Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, that discusses Isabel Bishop's graphic work; a selected bibliography; and listings of exhibitions, collections, and awards and honors. Some of the most memorable, expressive, and satisfying images of American women are found in Isabel Bishop's art. Long recognized as an astute observer of life in and around New York's Union Square, Bishop, who died in 1988, has more recently been praised for her conspicuous empathy with women and her subtle depiction of timely - and timeless - feminine themes. John Russell, chief art critic of The New York Times, who has contributed an insightful foreword to the book, commented in a review in 1975 that Bishop "has a novelist's eye for idiosyncracies of anatomy, dress and social behavior." Thus it is apropos that, in these pages, the life and artistic career of this compassionate chronicler of big-city life unfold through the insights of an author who is herself a novelist.
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Yglesias, Helen Bassine was born on March 29, 1915 in New York City. Daughter of Solomon and Kate (Goldstein) Bassine.
Student in public schools Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Maine, 1996.
Yglesias was the youngest of seven children born to Solomon and Kate Bassine, both Yiddish-speaking immigrants from the Russian-controlled portion of Poland who lived in an apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Solomon Bassine was the failed owner of several grocery stores. Helen wrote her first novel about a teenage girl in a New York high school, on three notebooks on her kitchen table when she was a teenager herself.
The book was never published, however, and, after high school, she worked at jobs selling underwear, stuffing envelopes, teaching ballroom dancing, and typing manuscripts.
Yglesias worked as an editor at The Nation from 1965 to 1969, by which time she was a mother of 3. In 1968, she signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
She started writing professionally when she was 54. Her first published novel was How She Died (1972).
The protagonist is Mary Moody Schwartz, the daughter of a Communist who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union during the 1930s.
Secretariat in a small New England town, the fifth wife had had enough of the cruelty and stabbed the husband to death. lieutenant goes on to tell of her trial and examines the idea of liberation. Foreign many years she lived and wrote in Brooklin, Maine.
Yglesias died on March 28, 2008—one day short of her 93rd birthday—in Manhattan of natural causes.
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According to the New York Times, it delved into "the roots of American radicalism, the story evolves into an account of one woman"s struggle with cancer and the disorganized attempts of her family and friends to help her.".
Married Bernard Cole, 1938 (divorced 1950). Children: Tamar Cole, Lewis Cole. Married Jose Yglesias, August 19, 1950 (divorced 1992).
1 child, Rafael.