Early Merce Cunningham Portraits Resurface

A treasure trove of images of dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham from the mid-'40s are being released for the first time. Artist John Heliker, who was a friend to Cunningham and his partner John Cage, made a painting and several works on paper in the ‘40s, but later forgot about them. The art critic Jed Perl, who is involved with the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, reproduces them in an insightful New Republic article about a close circle of friends, who were all struggling artists at the time.