File talk:JAKE & ESTHER Schwartz 1971 Detail Esther.jpg
In the autumn of 1971 when I left the double portrait of Jake and Esther Schwartz at my former sister-in-law Regina's apartment in the West Village, Barbara Schwartz complained to Regina of how I caused her unnecessary difficulties. I had stretched it there overlooking the playgrounds at Sixth Avenue and Houston, put it on the wall, and we fell under its spell. But Barbara never wanted it with her. I had given her what she was running from.
One can understand in retrospect Barbara Schwartz's response to the portrait when I surprised her by bringing it up to New York. She begrudged its presence invading her world; she immediately had it removed back to Philadelphia. Her own sense of glamour found it too threatening, too insistent a forewarning that her own delight in herself might find reversals.
Back in Philadelphia, Jake would make an elaborate frame for it. But Barbara was not thankful. Its disappearance from the cozy scene circling Elaine de Kooning and their close friend Aladar Marberger director of Fischback Gallery was very sobering.
- Richard Rappaport
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