Mina Loy
Mina Loy | |
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Mina Loy in 1917 | |
| Born | Mina Gertrude Löwy 27 December 1882 London, England |
| Died | 25 September 1966 (aged 83) Aspen, Colorado, US |
| Occupation(s) | Writer: poet, playwright, novelist; actress, designer, painter |
| Movement | Modernism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism |
| Spouse(s) | Stephen Haweis (1903 - divorced 1917, separated years beforehand), Arthur Cravan (25 January 1918 -) |
| Children | 4 |
Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966) was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. Her poetry was admired by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Gertrude Stein, Francis Picabia, and Yvor Winters, among others.