{"id":10019,"date":"2014-11-06T14:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?product=nickolas-murray-portrait-of-anna-duncan-dancer-vintage-photograph-1931"},"modified":"2014-11-21T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T17:05:26","slug":"nickolas-murray-portrait-of-anna-duncan-dancer-vintage-photograph-1931","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/nickolas-murray-portrait-of-anna-duncan-dancer-vintage-photograph-1931\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickolas Murray: Portrait of Anna Duncan, Dancer (vintage photograph, 1931)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8&#215;10&#8243; portrait of dancer Anna Duncan is in fine condition, an exceptional print on slightly glossy and textured paper. Stamped Nickolas Murray credit and date July-1931 on reverse, there is also a news announcement glued to back: &#8220;Anna Duncan Dancing as the Stadium Concerts of July 16 and 17&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Anna Duncan, nee Denzler, was one of the six adoptive daughters of dancing legend Isadora Duncan. She seems to have been a very pretty girl who felt compelled to leave the Duncan entourage in 1921 because she and Isadora were both in love with Isadora&#8217;s pianist, Walter Rummel.<\/p>\n<p>Although her independent performing career initially included original works, Anna vowed after Isadora died in 1927 to devote the rest of her life to teaching and performing only Isadora&#8217;s dances. A dead end was the result. Eventually she had to resign herself to working as a saleslady.<\/p>\n<p>Her final years were spent in the Jewish Home for the Aging Blind in Yonkers, New York. Kathleen Quinlan, a third-generation Duncan devotee, visited her regularly and inherited her memorabilia. Quinlan has given this collection to the Stockholm Dance Museum. <i>Anna Duncan: In the Footsteps of Isadora<\/i> is the souvenir book published in connection with a recent exhibit of the Anna Duncan material.&#8221; &#8212; Dance Magazine 1996<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8&#215;10&#8243; portrait of dancer Anna Duncan is in fine condition, an exceptional print on slightly glossy and textured paper. Stamped Nickolas Murray credit and date July-1931 on reverse, there is also a news announcement glued to back: &#8220;Anna Duncan Dancing as the Stadium Concerts of July 16 and 17&#8221;. Anna Duncan, nee Denzler, was one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[85,95],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-10019","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-original-photographs","product_cat-vintage-photographs","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/10019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=10019"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=10019"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=10019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}