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...LOUIS EILSHEMIUS-Lewison, 50 East 76th. He was by his own accounting, an author, dramatist, composer, librettist, globetrotter, womanologist, inventor and mesmerist. Eilshemius was also a gifted artist who suffered more than most from a fickle public. This centenary showing begins with a beautifully precise drawing done at twelve, runs through his stay in Samoa and concludes with 1909. when he was 45 and still unknown (he died in 1941). Also a collection of his letters, photographs, poetry. Through March...
...Eilshemius, the Unique...
...voice my thanks to your Art reporter for telling the story [March 15] of my mad granduncle, Louis Eilshemius. For all his many faults, he was a very prolific painter and had reached a remarkable standard in painting skill...
...work was rejected almost continuously by every U.S. show place, from the annual exhibitions of the National Academy to the famous Armory Show of 1913. Then, in 1917, he was accepted by an exhibition of independents, and French Painter Marcel Duchamp, the sensation of the Armory, declared an Eilshemius nude the finest painting of the 2,000 in the show. Artists such as Painter Joseph Stella and Sculptor Gaston Lachaise took up the Eilshemius banner...
Soon the dealers of 57th Street began to besiege him. But Eilshemius, who had inherited a bit of money, had no sense of business. He let his canvases go for pennies to dealers who cleaned up. As his money dwindled, he began painting on bits of newspaper, wood from cigar boxes, even the manuscripts of the strange piano pieces he composed. Finally, in 1921, a full 20 years before his death, he simply gave up painting entirely...