Jane Heap

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  • Jane
  • Heap
  • partner 1916-1924: Helen Anderson
  • n/a
  • November 1, 1883
  • Topeka, Kansas
  • June 16, 1964
  • London, England
  • 1901-1917: Chicago, Illinois

    1917-1922: New York, New York

    1922-?: Paris, France

    late 1930s: London, England
  • Chicago, Illinois

    New York, New York

    Paris, France

    London, England
  • Painter-Oil
  • 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
  • American Architecture Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

    Municipal Art League, Chicago, Illinois

    Artists Guild Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  • 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.
  • Cordon Club, Chicago, Illinois
  • 13 Honorable Mentions as student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • letters in the Little Review collection, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee letters in the Florence Reynolds Collection, University of Delaware
  • 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
  • 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