Actually, I am coming back to this magazine. There is a lot more here than meets the eye. In fact, I could not scan the entire front cover of the magazine. If you will look just below the O, you will see an L and remnants of an E. That Says "Israel, A Special Issue." I remember now where we got this magazine and why we have it. The Badanes had a relative named Alice Rovinsky. She lived in Palm Springs. I'm not sure how she was related, maybe Jeanne knows. Anyway, we learned about her when Joshua was about 1 year old and we went to visit her. We did that a couple of times and had lunch. She loved Joshua. We had the feeling that she did not have many human contacts so we tried to stay in touch. We learned that she was an artist of some renown. She was best know in Palm Springs with her art-work spoofing the rich in Palm Springs. Well, we went to see her one day unannounced and there was a coroner's tape across her door. She had died. And, it seemed she had no relatives and nobody to care about her passing. Well, we did what we could to find someone. I'm a little fuzzy about what we did. Jeanne, please help out. But, we did decide that since she had no relatives who were going to come to her house, that we would go in and see what we could see. What we saw was a woman living obviously very sparsely. Amost no worldly things except her art. Well, we took it. We still have it. I have packaged it up, not as carefully as I should have, but more carefully than anybody else was going to.
Well, Jeanne pointed out the Israel words on this magazine. I'm sure Alice was of the Jewish persuasion. But, here's the interesting thing, when I opened the magazine just now, out flopped a bunch of her art work. And, some other art work she had obviously collected from somewhere. I'm going to post all of those here now. I hope you will enjoy them as much as we do. (By the way, I contacted the Palm Springs Life Magazine recently to tell her I had this art work. I also contacted a Palm Springs Museum and none of them were at all interested in what I had.)
Now that I have uploaded all of these, it is obvious that Alice tore out her pictures from the magazine Palm Springs Life. It is also evident that she had a permanent place in each edition of the magazine. I can't even tell you what a treasure I think we have here.
The first picture is from a collection from the Desert Southwest. I think if you click on the pictures they will become large enough for you to read the captions below the cartoons.
I actually have two more pages that I am not going to post. You get the idea. I also have decided that since these pictures were so well preserved in the pages of this Holiday Magazine that is where I will keep them from now on. I consider them treasures.
This is an actual original that Alice did not finish. What a treasure. The caption that you can partly read says, "She's second from the end in the thrid row. Hasn't she a beautiful voice?"
This magazine is dated September 1970.
This is simply a picture of some desert wildflowers.
Dated December, 1970.
From the magazine dated September, 1969.
October, 1969.
November, 1969.
Dated May, 1969.
April, 1969.
Summer, 1968.
Summer, 1968.
September, 1970.
February, 1969.
This is very sweet. This is a letter to the editors of the Magazine published in a Comment: section. Here's what it says:
"Anybody Seen Alice?
Teitelbaum's cartoons in your June magazine are very amusing, but I missed Rovinsky's Palm Springs. Has Mr. Rovinsky flown the coop?'
Jack Lederman
Washington, D.C."
The Ed. Note: "He's a she. Her name is Alice. We'd clip her wings if she attempted flight. See pages 148-149."
Is that lovely or what!
Another art piece I guess Alice liked.
1 comment:
Hi - I'm doing some research on Alice Rovinsky - might be able to fill in some info on Alice - Dr. Ida Badenes was Alice's mother. Also went be the name Ida Rovinsky.
If you have time drop me a note - tmay@palmspringslife.com
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