Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Loy, Mina
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Loy, Mina, 1882-1966
Other form(s) of name
- Mina Loy
- Mina Gertrude Lowy, Mina Gertrude
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1882-1966
History
Mina Loy spent her later years in Aspen, Colorado, and Merton writes to her there. "Loy moved from Victorian England to impressionist Paris, to futurist Florence, to bohemian Greenwich Village and back to expatriate Paris during her long career. . . . Painter, poet, actress, playwright, feminist, mother, designer, conceptual artist - her range of skills and experience make it difficult to place her too squarely in any one artistic category." (Source: Hanscombe, Gillian and Virginia L. Smyers, "Mina Loy's Life" on the website of Modern American Poetry at Illinois University. Accessed 11 March 2009. ‹http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/loy/bio.htm›.)