Greenwich Village Activist
From the 1950s she became increasingly active in preserving Greenwich Village working alongside Jane Jacobs, Doris Diether and Ruth Wittenberg among others. These women, in particular its long-lived…
Read moreFrom the 1950s she became increasingly active in preserving Greenwich Village working alongside Jane Jacobs, Doris Diether and Ruth Wittenberg among others. These women, in particular its long-lived…
Read more(above) View of Greenwich House Pottery entrance, 1944, photographer is Risdon Tillery (courtesy of Library of Congress) Before Janeway had a proper…
Read more(above) Current view of Cooper-Union building on Astor Place (East 8th St), home of the Cooper-Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration…
Read moreLeft over from her last studio-storefront on West 10th Street (closed 1952), a cigar box of Janeway buttons were found in Janeway’s…
Read more(above) Janeway tiled hearth depicting seagulls and beach in Delft colors. somewhere in Amagansett, Long Island. pre-1949. seen here in Ladies Home…
Read more(above) Janeway. Peacock. Wheeling Tile. ca 1946. author’s collection Initially, Janeway’s decorated dustmolded industrial 6 inch square tiles were the basis of…
Read more(above) from “Do You Know This?” House & Garden. June 1944. p.72. By early 1943 Janeway was producing ceramic chess sets of…
Read more(above) Janeway. Bird with Upturned Beak. rounded tile. “Z” in signature refers to Ossip Zadkine, her mentor, and places the decoration in…
Read more(above) One of a pair of Janeway tiled bookends. datable 1942-44 based on painted signature and early design. location unknown. (above) Promotional…
Read more(above) Early in her career Janeway painted several frontal self-portraits on tile. She did fill commissions to paint tile portraits of others…
Read more(above) Four of five Janeway doorknobs were found in Marilyn Monroe’s estate. These four were sold at auction by Christie’s in 2001….
Read more(above) Janeway. 4-tile cheesetray. Winging Peacedove. Georg Jensen Inc. design.1943-1947. Author’s collection. Nearly as soon as Janeway started decorating tiles for sale,…
Read more(above) Ed Wiener pendant/brooch with Janeway ceramic insert. Pelican in gold. ca.1948. author’s collection; ex-coll. Carol Lane. (above) Ed Wiener as he appeared…
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