The Paper Doll Vintage Boutique and Cakewalk Photography are offering Long Islanders the chance to recreate Art Adams’ photo shoot with Marilyn for St. Valentine’s Day – more details here.
Marilyn’s Long Island Valentine
David Datuna’s Marilyn in Glass
This iconic image of Marilyn, seen through glass, is part of a new exhibition by artist David Datuna at his new Datuna Art Space, a converted taxi cab garage newly opened in Long Island City, New York, as Vinesh Vora reports for The Knockturnal. Here are some of his other portraits of Marilyn (with nods to Frank Powolny, Sam Shaw, Nickolas Muray and Andy Warhol…)
Warhol’s Marilyn On Memorial Day
Dan’s Papers, a free weekly for residents of the Hamptons, is approaching its sixtieth birthday. A new coffee table book, 60 Summers: Celebrating Six Iconic Decades On the East End, has just been published. You can read the story behind its first glossy cover here.
“Andy Warhol had a home on the ocean in Montauk, east of town, out towards the lighthouse, for many years, about 20 altogether … This painting was one of the many he did in Montauk, it is believed, although his main studio was at Union Square in New York City. He passed away in 1987, and two years later there was a retrospective of his paintings at the Guild Hall in East Hampton, and they managed to arrange for us to have this painting of Marilyn Monroe, which he did back in 1967, featured for this week’s cover.”
Marilyn Photos for Sale in Long Island
This terrific photo of Marilyn with her friend Sammy Davis Jr, taken by Frank Worth in 1953, is up for sale in the Summer Modern & Contemporary Art auction at RoGallery in Long Island next Tuesday, July 17. Other Marilyn-related lots include posters from Richard Avedon’s ‘Fabled Enchantresses’ series, and a photo by Lawrence Schiller from the ‘pool scene’ in Something’s Got to Give.
Marilyn on Long Island
Newsday looks backs on Marilyn’s many trips to Long Island, from iconic photo shoots with Andre De Dienes, Eve Arnold and Sam Shaw, to private getaways with husband Arthur Miller.
“After Monroe became involved with the married Miller in 1955, the two would rendezvous at locales including playwright and poet Norman Rosten’s summer cottage in Port Jefferson, and at her acting teacher Lee Strasberg’s place on Fire Island. But her most lasting presence here came in the summer of 1957, after she was the new Mrs. Miller and the couple had rented Jeffrey Potter’s Stony Hill Farm in Amagansett. They stayed in what Jeffrey’s son, Job, later explained was ‘the caretaker’s house,’ called Hill House.
‘Marilyn was outside in a polo shirt and shorts,’ Newsday reported that long-ago summer, ‘and there was very little that was typical about her. She did something for the polo shirt and shorts.’
Monroe ‘was lovely, feminine and sweet,’ Job Potter once recalled of that summer when he was 6. ‘I sold her some Girl Scout cookies,’ as a way to visit her. ‘My sister had some left over.’
But her time on the East End also saw sadness. At 11 a.m. on Aug. 1, 1957, Monroe was rushed to Doctors Hospital in Manhattan with symptoms of a miscarriage; it turned out to be an ectopic pregnancy. ‘The baby was unsavable,’ a hospital spokesman said. Marilyn’s physician, Dr. Hilliard Dubrow, reported that the 31-year-old had been ‘five or six weeks pregnant.’
After a week’s recovery, she returned by limousine to Amagansett on Aug. 10. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning husband had written something for her: A heartfelt sign on the front door reading, ‘Welcome home, Marilyn.'”