Sue Davidson Lowe

SUE DAVIDSON [GEIGER] LOWE, Guilford, Connecticut.

Current occupation: writer; occasional landscape designer.

Previous professions: Publishing: 1945-6 research & editorial assistant to Joseph Campbell for his The Hero with a Thousand Faces & Heinrich Zimmer’s The King & the Corpse. Citizen Education: 1946-8 executive secretary/faculty member NY Ethical Culture Society’s Encampment for Citizenship. Theater: 1944 Broadway production assistant Hope for the Best; 1948 associate- & co-producer 1) Broadway: The Men We Marry, Sally & 1950 The Enchanted; 2) 1948 touring company Anna Lucasta; 3) 1949 summer theaters Atlantic City, NJ & Norfolk, Va. 1956 translator/adaptor Albert Husson play The Lesser Comores produced at Bucks County Playhouse. Television: 1951-2 production assistant Channel V What’s the Story? & Who Do You Trust?; 1952 assistant producer 1st closed-circuit TV national sales conference for Schenley Distributors. Translator: 1954-7 plays/articles by 13 French authors including Giraudoux & Camus. Published Author: 1983 Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography, Farrar Straus & Giroux, NYC; also Quartet/Or!, London; 2002 new edition BFA Publications; 1988-89 magazine articles in Arts & Antiques; 1992 chapter From the Faraway Nearby Addison-Wesley; 1994 article on Piet Mondrian’s Wallworks in Sao Paolo exhibition catalogue. Lecturer: 1984-2002 major US universities, galleries, museums on Stieglitz, O’Keeffe, John Marin, Arthur Dove, Reiner Leist. Interviews Radio, TV & Film: 1993-2002 US & European

documentaries on Stieglitz, O’Keeffe, Edward Steichen. Landscape designer: 1984-2000 company HQ, residences in 3 states, also in NYC, Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Managing trustee: 1992-7 Piet Mondrian/Harry Holtzman Trust, handling Mondrian copyrights & exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art NYC, National Gallery, Gemeente-museum in The Hague, Tokoro Gallery in Tokyo, U. of Michigan, Sao Paulo Museum in Brazil. Volunteer: 1948-1958 Trustee, Encampment for Citizenship; 1958-1970 Trustee & 1962-69 Board Secretary, Dalton Schools, NYC; 1964 tour guide/occasional speechwriter for UN/ECOSOC Ambassador Franklin Williams; 1974-6 Board member East Side International Community Center. Former member: 1945-1976 Actors Equity & Screen Actors Guild; 1955-1992 Dramatists Guild, Authors League of America. Awards/Honors: 1985 Special Citation American Photo-graphic Historical Society; 1999 Garden Club of America honoree, Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens. Personal History: Born New York City 1922, 2nd daughter of Elizabeth Stieglitz (1897-1956) & Donald Douglas (1878-1956) Davidson; sister Elizabeth Margery (Peggy) Davidson McManus Bodkin Murray (1919-2002). 1944 wed USAAF Lt. Peter E. Geiger (b.1923), widowed 1945. 1950 wed theatre & TV producer/ director/writer David Lowe (1917-65), divorced 1954. Mother of painter/photographer Ellen Douglas Lowe (1951- ) & stepmother of TV producer/director David Lowe, Jr. (1945- ). Education: 1938 honor graduate of Dalton School; 1939 honor post-graduate Baldwin School; 1939-40 Vassar freshman; fall 1940 New School for Social Research; 1941 January to June 1943 Sarah Lawrence College, BA fall 1943 (Class of 1944) after 1942 & 1943 half-year summer courses at Barnard & Columbia University Graduate School. Travels 1934-1999: Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Italy, Austria, Monte Carlo, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Japan, Montreal, 24 US states (including Hawaii).