Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Ananda Kentish Muthu Coomaraswamy was a Ceylonese metaphysician, historian and a philosopher of Indian art who was an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. He has been described as "the gro
Coomaraswamy in 1916
His second wife: Alice Coomaraswamy (Ratan Devi) with Roshanara
Portrait of Ananda Coomaraswamy, published 1907.
Portrait of Coomaraswamy printed in the April 1916 issue of The Hindusthanee Student.
Stella Bloch
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Stella Bloch was an American artist, dancer and journalist. She headlined as a dancer in Rochester, New York. She also worked as an artist and her work is in several collections.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
…two children, a son, Narada, and daughter, Rohini. Coomaraswamy divorced his second wife after they arrived in America. He married the American artist Stella Bloch, 20 years his junior, in November 1922. Through the 1920s, Coomaraswamy and his wife were part of the bohemian art circles in New York City, Coomaraswamy…
Bloch in 1919 or 1920
Bloch in costume