[lace] Aurelia Loveman
Dear Sharon, If you want to see the obituary of a fascinating woman, here is the link to the one that was written by Aurelia Loveman’s son. https://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/msg43510.html She put on a lace show at the Walters Art Gallery in 1988 in Baltimore. Later she was instrumental in the show at the Baltimore Art Gallery about the lace of the Cone Sisters, better known for their Matisses. Perhaps Bobby would like to meet her in Baltimore. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Aurelia Loveman
Dear friends,? I've just had an email from Aurelia's son, Jonathan, that Aurelia passed away two nights ago after a long illness. I believe she would have been 97 this coming October 31stquite a long life for a remarkable lady and lacemaker who, just a couple of years ago, posted a link on Arachne to her instructive needlelace blog, for which unfortunately I cannot find a functional link. (Perhaps someone else has a working link?) Aurelia contributed substantially to the cataloguing of the Cone Lace Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art and continued to make bobbin and needle lace throughout most of her life, and graciously hosted classes and gatherings of lacemakers at her home in Baltimore. She moved to be near her son in Michigan in the last few years. She was a unique character and will be missed by those of us who knew her. Vicki in Maryland? - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Aurelia Loveman
Subject: [lace] Aurelia Loveman Dear friends,? I've just had an email from Aurelia's son, Jonathan, that Aurelia passed away two nights ago after a long illness. I believe she would have been 97 this coming October 31st - How sad to learn that we have lost another great lady who has contributed so much over the years to us lacemakers. I had the great pleasure of having Aurelia as a student when teaching for the Springetts, when Cynthia Voysey treated her to a place on my course as a thank you for all the kindness shown to her by Aurelia. Please pass my condolences to her family and friends. Catherine Barley UK Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Aurelia Loveman
Like Catherine I crossed paths with Aurelia at the college of lace. We shared a table on a course - I believe it was with Pam Nottingham but the memory plays tricks. Aurelia enjoyed her weekend so much and was devastated when it came to an end. Weren't we all - great times! The world has lost another passionate lacemaker and lady of great character who will be sadly missed by her family and all who knew her. Diana in Northamptonshire Sent from my iPad - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Aurelia Loveman
This is sad news indeed this morning. Aurelia was one of those people whom I have heard much about and would love to have known her in person. Karen in Malta - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Aurelia Loveman
Dear All, last weekend I must think very intensively on Aurelia and I was afraid it could end with the message we got. I had the joy to stay with her in her house when I was with the Cheasapeak lacers for the of the presentation Cone lace-collection. We had so much fun together and I remember each time I didn't look on her pillow she tried again to work Chantilly lace like Bucks. This was after a long e-mail-friendship. We discussed all the problems she had at the beginning with her cat Tamara. And I must say it was a lovely moment as Tamara, one evening, came near to me and looked at me. It's a sad lost for me. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Aurelia Loveman Tribute
Dear Aurelia's birthday was on my calendar every year - for remembrance. It is possible that I knew her longer than most in the lace community. She lived in New York City when we met. Her younger sister, Addie Busch, was a moving force in the 1968 beginnings of the Manhattan Chapter of The Embroiderers' Guild of America. We met via this connection. There was friendly rivalry between the two sisters. One devoted to lace, the other to embroidery. EGA, a rather new organization in America and off-shoot of the EG in England, presented (in those early years) huge embroidery exhibitions in a corporate building's gallery on Park Avenue, New York. It was on the second floor, with wall-to-wall windows. This made possible a glorious view of the colorful embroideries inside, especially at night. A 1976 exhibition catalog confirms that Aurelia exhibited her work. She was, in fact, responsible for the 21-page exhibit catalog. Needle lace is considered (by embroiderers) to be embroidery, and so lace passions often grew from roots planted in EGA. Early issues of the IOLI Bulletin indicate Aurelia served as editor. Several covers of the IOLI Bulletin (after color and fancier bulletins were introduced) featured wonderful laces by Aurelia. For years, she served as a IOLI Bulletin proofreader. In 1989, Aurelia's 19-page catalog Lace - The Origins Development of Handmade Lace, for a exhibition at The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, was published. ISBN 0-911886-36-2. Aurelia wanted this to be in my Maine lace library, and sent a copy at Christmas 2006. Her summary of the history of lace is wonderful. Many will recall the exceptional exhibit of the Cone Laces at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2005. I visited this exhibit three times, and was very enthusiastic about the intelligence behind the exhibit's excellent explanatory labels. This research was, I am fairly certain, contributed by Aurelia.. About this time frame we had a face-to-face chat, and a chance to reminisce. She recommended out-of-print lace books to me right up to the time she left Maryland to live near her son. As a long-distance member of the Chesapeake Region Lace Guild (near Washington DC), I noted in their newsletters that right up until the time she moved to Michigan, there were four smaller groups of this lace organization meeting in Aurelia's home on a regular basis. Wow! Aurelia was a graduate of Columbia University, NYC, with a PhD in Psychology. Yet, most lace makers never knew about this side of her life, and her other accomplishments. All who personally knew Aurelia will imagine her in that special place reserved for all good people, sharing her vast knowledge in most beautiful surroundings with lace makers of the past. Farewell, dear friend. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center -- I've just had an email from Aurelia's son, Jonathan, that Aurelia passed away two nights ago after a long illness. I believe she would have been 97 this coming October 31stquite a long life for a remarkable lady and lacemaker who, just a couple of years ago, posted a link on Arachne to her instructive needlelace blog. Aurelia contributed substantially to the cataloguing of the Cone Lace Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art and continued to make bobbin and needle lace throughout most of her life, and graciously hosted classes and gatherings of lacemakers at her home in Baltimore. She moved to be near her son in Michigan in the last few years. She was a unique character and will be missed by those of us who knew her.Vicki in Maryland - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Aurelia Loveman obituary
Aurelia's son has shared the following obituary about his mother and allowed me to share it with whomever is interested. Devon Dear Friends, My mother, Aurelia Leffler Loveman, died on the night of August 20, after a several- monthsâ struggle with C. difficile colitis. She was 96. She was born October 31, 1916, in Brooklyn, NY, to Louis and Anna Leffler; graduated from Barnard College in 1937. She married Howard Levi, a mathematician, and subsequently had one son, Jonathan (this writer) in 1948. After she and my father separated, she went back to graduate school and received her PhD in psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1961; she then obtained a diploma in psychoanalysis from the William Alanson White Institute in New York. She married Joseph Heller Loveman of Baltimore in 1974, but continued her psychoanalytic practice part-time for several years before retiring and moving to Baltimore to be with her husband full-time. After her husbandâs death in 1998, she continued to live in their house until increasing age forced her to move to assisted-living; she continued there for two more years, first in Baltimore, then in West Bloomfield, Michigan. A talented pianist and singer, she studied voice with world-famous Wagnerian baritone Friedrich Schorr in New York, and had a brief career as a radio singer before becoming a mother. However, her great interest later in life was in textile arts, including knitting, weaving, embroidering, and especially, bobbin lace. She was known internationally for the latter, and directed lace exhibits at Baltimoreâs Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art; she edited the Bulletin of IOLI (International Organization of Lace, Inc., formerly International Old Lacers, Inc.) from 1985 to 1987, and was their eagle-eyed proofreader until earlier this year. Finally, she was a devoted member of the Chesapeake Region Lace Guild and continued to host their weekly meetings, continuing even for some time after her move to assisted-living. She was the author of a number of magazine articles on lace, and was actually writing a last book on lace before her final illness sadly terminated her project. In addition to her lace articles, she was the author of a number of psychoanalytic research papers, short stories, and a novel, âThe Good Wifeâ. She leaves her son, Jonathan Levi, and his wife, Karen; four grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. Funeral arrangements are private. Jonathan Levi, MD - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Aurelia Loveman
What very sad news. Please pass on my condolences to her son and family. I never met her, of course, but know the name, and know of her vast knowledge of our craft. She will be sadly missed. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Aurelia Loveman Has a New Email Address
Hi All, My mother has a new Comcast internet connection, so she'll be stopping her Earthlink subscription soon. Her new email address is aurelialoveman...@comcast.net. Please make the change in your address book and keep writing to her! Jonathan Levi (son) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
