“She made her living selling words. . . . Her prices were fair. For five centavos she delivered verses from memory, for seven she improved the quality of dreams, for nine she wrote love letters, for twelve she invented insults for irreconcilable enemies. She also sold stories, not fantasies but long, true stories she recited at one telling, never skipping a word. . . . It seemed to her that selling words would be an honorable alternative. From that moment on, she worked at that profession, and was never tempted by any other.
— Isabel Allende, The Stories of Eva Luna, 1991”
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You are invited to preview Artist on the Edge, a serialized biography of American artist Annette Nancarrow . . .
Annette Nancarrow with Diego Rivera in his Mexico City studio.
In 1936, a talented, beautiful American artist ran away to Mexico City to escape a boring marriage, marry an exciting lover, and join the “big three” Mexican muralists—Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Siquieros—in their exploration of socially conscious art. Annette Nancarrow lived in Mexico for fifty years, took many lovers, married two more times, painted, designed jewelry, participated in creating a famous mural, “liberated” Pre-Columbian art from the government, and led an exciting social life with the glitterati of Mexico’s golden era.
I spent several years researching this fascinating woman’s life and art, interviewing family and friends in the United States and Mexico. As was true for many talented women artists of the early half of the twentieth century, Annette and her achievements were shunted to the edge of the spotlight. My mission is to introduce to a wider audience a remarkable woman’s journey during an historic period of American and Mexican art. READ MORE . . .