The Red Chair

Authors

  • Danielle Mailer Author

Keywords:

memoir, family memory, father-daughter relationship, Brooklyn Heights, Diane Arbus, grief and mourning

Abstract

Danielle Mailer recalls how, after her father’s and Norris Church Mailer’s deaths, she and her husband rescued the battered red “channel back” chair from Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights apartment—the chair in which Diane Arbus photographed him—and gave it a new home.

Author Biography

  • Danielle Mailer

    Danielle Mailer is a professional visual artist. She has a BA degree from Bowdoin College and has studied at New York Studio School and School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited her art all over the Northeast and has had a solo retrospective at the Mattituck Museum in Waterbury Connecticut. She was also part of a traveling retrospective of Provincetown artists titled “The Tides of Provincetown” at the New Britain Museum of American Art. She is represented by The Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown Mass. In the last decade she has moved into the public art arena and created four larger than life permanent outdoor installations (thanks to state and federal grants) in New York City, Boston and Connecticut. She lives in Goshen Connecticut with her husband, jazz trombonist Peter McEachern, and their three adult children who visit often. She is also Studio Art Chair at the Salisbury Boys School in Salisbury Connecticut.

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Published

2018-10-25

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Mailer, Danielle. “The Red Chair”. The Mailer Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Oct. 2018, pp. 31–32, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/642.