Born in Germany and moving to New York City during World War II, Edith Schloss (1919-2011) became part of a thriving community of artists and intellectuals that included Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, John Cage, and Frank O'Hara, later marrying photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt. She was both a working artist and an incisive critic, and in this collection she also comments perceptively on such friends as Joseph Cornell, Franz Kline, John Cage, Giorgio Morandi, Cy Twombly, Meret Oppenheim, and Francesca Woodman