MODOTTI TINA (1896 1942) Portrait of Keith Coppage

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MODOTTI, TINA (1896-1942)
Portrait of Keith Coppage. Silver print, 9 1/2x7 1/4 inches (24.1x18.4 cm.), with Modotti's signature, in pencil, on print recto. 1928

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From the subject, Keith Coppage; by descent to the present owner.
Coppage's friend, Ione Robinson, was roommates with Tina Modotti in Mexico City, which is presumably how the two met.

The following is an excerpt from the San Antonio Express dated November 5, 1933: "Mexico City. - Keith Coppage, University of Texas graduate and a native Texan, has achieved distinction as a professional dancer in Mexico, and as a student of the dance. Her last public recital in Mexico City, given in September, was widely applauded by critics as well as the large audience which filled the Hidalgo Theater here. The dancer (who in private life is Mrs. Eyler Simpson) is now in the United States perfecting her technique and taking advanced courses in her art. Her husband, Eyler Simpson, is a well known economist and sociologist, also a graduate of the University of Texas, and representative in Mexico of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Committee on cultural Relations with Latin-America. Mrs. Simpson began her career with the Chicago Civic Opera Company as a soloist and later danced in the Carroll Ballet here. She toured Mexico with the Pavley-Oukrainsky ballet seven years ago. Keith Coppage is of the modernistic dance school which seeks pure emotion of line, divorced from academic conventionalisms. At her last recital she danced "La Plus Que Leute - Debussy," "Vais Romantique - Tschaikowsky," "Mare Night - Wilkins," "Lamento - Beethoven" (with maks) and three preludes of Chopin..."