Jane Heap

Artist Details

• First Name Jane
• Surname Heap
• Spouse’s Full Name partner 1916-1924: Helen Anderson
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date November 1, 1883
• Birth Place Topeka, Kansas
• Death Date June 16, 1964
• Death Place London, England
• Residence(s) 1901-1917: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1917-1922: New York, New York
  
  1922-?: Paris, France
  
  late 1930s: London, England
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  New York, New York
  
  Paris, France
  
  London, England
• Categories Painter-Oil
• Training 1901: graduated Topeka High School. Topeka, Kansas
  1901-1905: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  1905: studied tapestry and mural design near Munich, Germany
  1909-1911: night courses, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
• Exhibitions History American Architecture Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Municipal Art League, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Artists Guild Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• Publications Anderson, Margaret. The Fiery Fountains. 1951. ------.My Thirty Years’ War, 1930. -----. Strange Necessity, 1969. Baggett, Holly A. “Aloof from Natural Laws: Margaret C. Anderson and the Little Review: 1914-1929,” Ph.D. diss. University of Delaware, 1992. ------. “Heap, Jane” in Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Marek, Jayne. Women Editing Modernism. 1995. Moore, James. Gurdjieff: The Anatomy of a Myth. 1991. Rima Schultz and Adele Hast., eds.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001. Katz, Jonathan. Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary History. 1983. Platt, Susan Noyes. “Mysticism and the Machine Age: Jane Heap and the Little Review, Twenty/One, Fall 1989. Rule, Jane. Lesbian Images, 1979. Watson, Steven. Strange Bedfellows, 1991. Webb, James. The Harmonious Circle: The Lives and Work of G.I. Gurdjieef, P.D. Ouspensky and Their Followers. 1987.
• Memberships Cordon Club, Chicago, Illinois
• Awards 13 Honorable Mentions as student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Archive(s) letters in the Little Review collection, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee letters in the Florence Reynolds Collection, University of Delaware
• Other Occupation(s) 1906? -?: teacher, Lewis Institute, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1914-1929: Co-editor of the "Little Review" journal (with Helen Anderson)
  
  wrote and acted in plays performed at Lewis Instiutte
  
  1912: set designer and actor, On Baile’s Strand, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1922-1929: managed the Little Review Gallery
  
  1922-1929: procured foreign art for exhibitions
  
  1922-1929: staged plays in New York, New York
  
  late 1930s: taught George Gurdjieff’s ideas
• Biography Parents:   George (English) and Enna Heap (Norwegian/Lapp)
  
  father worked as engineer at Topeka State Insane Asylum
  
  Siblings:  two sisters, 1 brother
  
  prone to depression and pessimism
  
  cross-dresser by 1916; loved to wear a tuxedo with a long skirt
  
  often played male roles in plays
  
  acerbic wit, talent for conversation
  
  1920s: Heap and Anderson tried for obscenity for serializing James Joyce’s Ulysses in