This work covers the life of a remarkable Adirondack woman (model, journalist, and poet) and provides readers with an insider's view into art and literature during the birth of the Age of Modernism.

A Sicilian immigrant who trained at the Art Students League in New York, Jon Corbino (1905-1964) was one of the most influential members of the "Sarasota School" of art, a group of painters and artists, many of them expatriate New Yorkers, who came to the west coast of Florida for its natural beauty, the quality of its light, and the open-aired freedom to explore their art. He began his career by chronicling the lives and struggles of his fellow immigrants, and by the 1930s he was being hailed in newspapers as "the founder of the school of Baroque-Romanticism in America." In 1938, Life...