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Sep 1, 2022 · One often hears the term “Renaissance man” for creative men, but women are seldom accorded this designation. Nonetheless, Kyra Markham (1891–1967) was a “Renaissance woman,” a witness of and participant in the bohemian cultures of Chicago and New York in and after the 1910s. Although Markham habitually oscillated between the professional and bohemian-amateur worlds of theater, visual ...
Kyra Markham (American, Chicago, Illinois 1890–1967 Halifax, Vermont) 1936. Burlycue. Kyra Markham (American, Chicago, Illinois 1890–1967 Halifax, Vermont)
Mar 18, 2022 · Kyra Markham was born in 1891 in Chicago, Illinois, and began a two-year course of study at the Chicago Art Institute when she was 16. Her talents as a visual artist were matched by her talent as an actress and she pursued these expressive avenues simultaneously most of her life beginning in 1909 when she first appeared with the Chicago Little ...
Kyra Markham was born Elain Hyman in Chicago, Illinois. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago until she was discovered as an actress and left to pursue a career in the theater and motion picture industries. In 1927 she revived her interest in art, resuming her studies at the Art Students League in New York City. Her paintings and lithographs are primarily realist in style and run the ...
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Sep 1, 2022 · Kyra Markham’s skill as a raconteur was not matched by her typing or by her spelling, but her misadventures at the keyboard help create a lively persona. Markham’s jest in letter 2, below, about her struggles with spelling “Charlemagne” indicates an unembarrassed awareness of a common deficiency, and her remarks about drinking in letters 5 and 8 suggest a situational clumsiness that ...
