Clara Tice - 5 Drawings (1915-17)

Forgotten Prints #1

‘Varais’ (1917)

‘Dancers’ (1915)

‘Heads’ (1916)

‘Self-Portrait’ (1915)

‘Self-Portrait with Cat’ (1916)

Welcome to the first issue of Forgotten Prints! As a collector and anthologist of late-1800s and early-1900s poetry, I also come across a lot of striking art and illustration work, buried in the pages of obscure and seldom read publications. To remedy this, every week I’ll be sharing forgotten prints, pictures, and photographs, lovingly restored from magazines and art journals in the public domain. Enjoy!

Clara Tice [a.k.a. ‘The Queen of Greenwich Village’] (1888-1973) was a well-known New York artist and illustrator, comfortable in a variety of styles, from sketching and drawing, to commercial illustration and cartooning, to abstract and avant-garde experimentation. Tice’s work would go on to appear in all manner of publications, from cutting-edge ‘little’ magazines like the Greenwich Village based Bruno’s Weekly (1915), an underground arts journal edited by Guido Bruno, and the Dada affiliated Blind Man (1917)—also featuring Marcel Duchamp and Mina Loy, among others—to high-end fashion magazines like Vanity Fair.

A frequent New York Dada collaborator, Tice also had work included in the first exhibition of the ‘Society of Independent Artists’ (1917), now famous for rejecting Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ (which, incidentally, may have been a collaboration with ‘forgotten’ poet, Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven).

 
                -: Ode to Dancing :-
                         For Clara Tice
                              by Dick Whyte

                dance river—
                you really

                are
                something

                else



                           xoxo
                            dw

Forgotten Poets Presents

Forgotten Prints: a free, living gallery of obscure and out-of-circulation prints and pictures, lovingly restored from late-1800s and early-1900s magazines and arts journals. Please feel welcome to freely share/remix the restored images, in non-commercial settings (make sure to send us a link if you do!). If you would like to use one of our restored images in a commercial project or publication, please get in touch—we can definitely sort something out!

More dada . . .

From the archives . . .