- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- To Iris Barry (1895–1969)
- Credits
- Previews
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1 Early Years -
2 “We Enjoyed the War” -
3 “Dear Miss Barry” -
4 The Other Bloomsbury -
5 Life with Lewis -
6 Children -
7 Alan Porter -
8 The Spectator -
9 Splashing into Film Society -
10 Cinema Paragons, Hollywood, and Lady Mary -
11 Let’s Go to the Pictures -
12 Victory and Defeat -
13 America -
14 The Askew Salon -
15 Museum Men -
16 Remarriage -
17 Settling In -
18 Cracking Hollywood -
19 Art High and Low -
20 On to Europe -
21 Going Public -
22 The Slow Martyrdom of Alfred Barr -
23 Meanwhile, Back at the Library -
24 New Work, Old Acquaintances -
25 “The Master” and his Minions -
26 Temora Farm -
27 The Museum Enlists -
28 Mr. Rockefeller’s Office -
29 L’Affair Buñuel -
30 The Other Library -
31 Divorce -
32 Postwar Blues -
33 Abbott’s Fall -
34 Hospital -
35 Departure -
36 La Bonne Font -
37 Things Past -
38 The Austin House -
39 Readjustments -
40 New York and London -
41 Final Breaks -
42 The End - Sequel
- Sources
- Index
Life with Lewis
Life with Lewis
- Chapter:
- (p.49) 5 Life with Lewis
- Source:
- Lady in the Dark
- Author(s):
Robert Sitton
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This chapter details the beginning of Iris Barry's liaison with the painter and novelist Percy Wyndham Lewis. Iris became involved with Lewis at the end of World War I and during Pound's declining influence. Although they cohabited erratically between 1919 and 1922, during which time Iris often posed as a model for Lewis to draw or paint, Lewis, motivated by jealousy or perhaps a desire to be left alone with other sitters in his studio, as often as eight times a week would send Iris off to the movies, which she studied intently. No record seems to exist of the progress of their affair. A search of the autobiographical fiction Lewis produced so prolifically at the time, however, reveals a number of passages suggestive of a Lewis–Barry liaison. A plausible depiction of amorous relations with Iris might be found in a section of a story Lewis wrote in 1918 and titled “The War Baby”.
Keywords: painter, novelist, Percy Wyndham Lewis, poetry, affair
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- To Iris Barry (1895–1969)
- Credits
- Previews
-
1 Early Years -
2 “We Enjoyed the War” -
3 “Dear Miss Barry” -
4 The Other Bloomsbury -
5 Life with Lewis -
6 Children -
7 Alan Porter -
8 The Spectator -
9 Splashing into Film Society -
10 Cinema Paragons, Hollywood, and Lady Mary -
11 Let’s Go to the Pictures -
12 Victory and Defeat -
13 America -
14 The Askew Salon -
15 Museum Men -
16 Remarriage -
17 Settling In -
18 Cracking Hollywood -
19 Art High and Low -
20 On to Europe -
21 Going Public -
22 The Slow Martyrdom of Alfred Barr -
23 Meanwhile, Back at the Library -
24 New Work, Old Acquaintances -
25 “The Master” and his Minions -
26 Temora Farm -
27 The Museum Enlists -
28 Mr. Rockefeller’s Office -
29 L’Affair Buñuel -
30 The Other Library -
31 Divorce -
32 Postwar Blues -
33 Abbott’s Fall -
34 Hospital -
35 Departure -
36 La Bonne Font -
37 Things Past -
38 The Austin House -
39 Readjustments -
40 New York and London -
41 Final Breaks -
42 The End - Sequel
- Sources
- Index
