The Art of La Demoiselle by Hans Hoffman

In the 1930s in the US there aren't that many places where you can gain a training which is really looking at kind of European modernism. so then fast forward a few years she starts to study under Hans Hoffman who is kind of renowned in the city for being this guy who is introducing cubism to more classical painters exactly. She holds on to a studio space at the Hoffman School and when Mondrian comes over and sees her work exhibited with the American abstract artist he says this is so good it has such a strong inner rhythm you must never lose it. I think she's also conscious the fact that very few of those works from that period survive she was a ruthless editor of her

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