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        <h1>Zelda Fitzgerald</h1>
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                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/PhotoofZelda.jpg" alt=" Photo of Zelda "></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Photo of Zelda</div>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama, was a painter, novelist and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, whom she married in 1920. Her husband dubbed her “the first American Flapper.” She published an autobiographical novel, <em>Save Me the Waltz</em>, in 1932. In June 1930 she suffered her first mental breakdown; soon afterwards, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was required to live from then on in a mental hospital. She died at the age of 47 in a fire at the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.</p>
                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/Fitz_MarriageAtCana.jpg" alt=" Marriage at Cana "></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Marriage at Cana</div>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Born in 1900, Zelda was the youngest of six children. Her mother, Minnie Sayre, named her after a Gypsy queen in a novel. She was totally indulged by her mother, who spoiled her, but her father, a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and one of Alabama’s leading jurists, was a stern and remote man. As a child she was extremely active; she danced, took ballet lessons and enjoyed the outdoors.</p>
                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/Fitz_TheQueensCroquetGround.jpg" alt=" The Queens Croquet Ground, watercolor "></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Queens Croquet Ground, watercolor</div>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1914 Zelda began attending Sidney Lanier High school. She was bright but uninterested in her studies. Her ballet lessons continued into high school. During these years, she began an active social life. She earned a reputation as a “speed.” She drank, smoked and spent time alone with boys. In a newspaper article about one of her dance performances, she is quoted as saying that she only cared about “boys and swimming.” Her father’s reputation was the only thing that saved her from social ruin.</p>
                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/Fitz_ThePantheonAndLuxemburgGardens.jpg" alt=" The Pantheon & Luxemburg Gardens 1944"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Pantheon &amp; Luxemburg Gardens 1944</div>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">As a southern woman growing up around the turn of the century, Zelda’s shameless antics were frowned upon to say the least. Southern women were expected to be delicate, docile and accommodating. Zelda commented on her struggle to be who she needed to be while living under stifling social pressures.</p>
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                        <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">“It’s very difficult to be two people at once, one who wants to have a law unto itself and the other who want to keep all the nice old things and be loved and safe and protected.”</p>
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                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Zelda met Scott Fitzgerald in 1918 while he was stationed at an army post near Montgomery. They met at a Montgomery country club where she performed the “Dance of the Hours.” They began a courtship that was interrupted in 1919 when Scott was discharged from the military and returned to New York to build a life for himself and Zelda.</p>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">The two wrote to each other frequently and in March of 1919 Scott sent Zelda his mother’s ring and the two became engaged. Many of Zelda’s friends and members of her family were wary of the relationship. They did not approve of Scott’s excessive drinking habits, and her Episcopalian family did not like that he was a Catholic. The two married in April 1920.</p>
                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/Fitz_TimesSquare1944.jpg" alt=" Times Square 1944"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Times Square 1944</div>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Once they married, Zelda was expected to be the witty and charming wife of an up-and-coming writer. After Scott published <em>This Side of Paradise</em>, the two were the focus of media attention as much for their drunken antics as Scott’s talent. Jealousy plagued their marriage. Zelda was jealous of Scott’s literary success. Scott felt alienated by all of the male attention she received. Their excessive drinking often caused fights to get out of hand. There is some evidence that Scott became physically violent toward Zelda during drunken arguments.</p>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">But the endless round of parties and the massive quantities of alcohol they consumed began to take a toll on the couple’s health and relationship, and they squandered virtually all the money Scott made from his writing, spending as much as US$30,000 per year — a colossal figure for the time. By the mid-Twenties Scott had become a notoriously heavy drinker (he even had his own private bootlegger, and when not writing he would typically binge-drink until he passed out and was sent home in a taxi).</p>
                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/Fitz_HanselAndGretel.jpg" alt=" Hansel and Gretel 1943-1947"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Hansel and Gretel 1943-1947</div>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">While living in Paris, Scott Fitzgerald — by then an international literary star — met rising American author Ernest Hemingway, whose career he did much to promote. Hemingway and Fitzgerald became firm friends (although they later became estranged), but as biographer Nancy Milford reports, Zelda disliked Hemingway from the start, openly describing him as “bogus” and “as phoney as a rubber check”, and considered Hemingway’s domineering macho persona to be merely a posture. One of the most serious rifts between Zelda and Scott took place because Zelda became convinced (albeit with no credible evidence) that Hemingway was “a fairy” and that he and Scott were having a homosexual affair. For the most part, Zelda’s dislike for Hemingway was perhaps due to jealousy — she once threw herself down a flight of marble stairs at a party because Scott, engrossed in talking to Isadora Duncan, was ignoring her.</p>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">The birth of their only child, Frances “Scottie” Fitzgerald in 1921 did little to slow the pace of their lives, and although Zelda was fond of the child and wrote to her frequently, Scottie was almost entirely brought up by nannies and was often apart from her parents.</p>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1924, during one of the first of their several trips to France, Zelda had a brief affair (or at least became infatuated) with a dashing young French pilot, Edouard Jozan. This prompted her husband to lock her in their house to keep her from seeing him again; later, they would embellish the story by claiming that Jozan had committed suicide. It is possible that Zelda’s long descent into schizophrenia began during this period. She wrote a number of short stories beginning in 1925, but many of these were published under Scott’s name, another possible factor of her growing discontent; three other stories, written just before her first breakdown, were later lost.</p>
                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/Fitz_BrooklynBridge1944.jpg" alt=" Brooklyn Bridge 1944"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Brooklyn Bridge 1944</div>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Scott drew heavily upon his wife intense personality in his writings, often directly quoting segments from her personal diaries in his work. She never commented on this, other than a pithy remark in a review that òIt seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and also scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald ñ I believe that is how he spells his name ñ seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.</p>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">While in Paris, at age 27, Zelda became obsessed with ballet, which she had studied as a girl. She had been praised for her dancing skills as a child, and although the opinions of their friends vary as to her skill, it appears that she did have a fair degree of talent. But Scott was totally dismissive of his wife’s desire to become a professional dancer, considering it a waste of time.</p>
                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/Fitz_FamilyInUnderwear.jpg" alt=" Family in Underwear, Paper Dolls "></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Family in Underwear, Paper Dolls</div>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Ironically, much of the conflict between them stemmed from the boredom and isolation Zelda experienced when Scott was writing — she would often interrupt him when he was working. Scott conversely became increasingly determined to keep Zelda at home, presumably because he feared that she might begin another affair. Zelda evidently had a deep desire to develop a talent that was entirely her own, perhaps a reaction to Scott’s fame and success as a writer.</p>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Sadly, she rekindled her studies too late in life to become a truly exceptional dancer, but she obsessively insisted on grueling daily practice (up to eight hours a day) that contributed to her subsequent physical and mental exhaustion. Her eventual breakdown included elements of obsessive-compulsive disorder. In 1930, she was admitted to a sanatorium in France where, after months of observation and treatment and a consultation with one of Europe’s leading psychiatrists, she was officially diagnosed as having schizophrenia. However, her last psychiatrist, Dr. Irving Pine, believed (too late) that she may have actually had severe untreated bipolar disorder. He speculated after her death that the cause of her breakdowns may have been as much from her husband’s mental bullying and her treatment for her disorder as the disorder itself.</p>
                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/Fitz_SelfPortraitInstitution.jpg" alt=" Self-Portrait, Institution"></p>
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                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Zelda Fitzgerald spent the remaining 18 years of her life in various stages of mental distress. However, in her few periods of lucidity, she composed some of her best work, including her only novel, <em>Save Me the Waltz</em>, and numerous abstract paintings. She died in 1948, with her few remaining unpublished bits of work, her last letters to Scott before he died the last remnants of her life. At the time of her death, she was writing a second novel, <em>Caesar’s Things</em>, when a fire consumed the sanitarium where she lived in Asheville, North Carolina.</p>
                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/Fitz_GreatSmokeyMountains1940.jpg" alt=" Great Smokey Mountains 1940"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Great Smokey Mountains 1940</div>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Although her status as the wife of a great American writer and socialite, as well as her sad decline of mental health are perhaps what people remember most about Zelda, it is her artwork that has become her legacy. She so yearned to have a talent of her own during her lifetime to match her husband, and art historians and experts can now recognize that talent.</p>
                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/Fitz_LadiesCostumeDesignfromLouisXIV.jpg" alt=" Ladies Costume Design from the Louis XIV Set "></p>
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                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Among her oeuvre were countless watercolors and even detailed paper dolls. Typically featuring storybook and mythological scenes, Zelda Expressionist/Surrealist style was no doubt a reflection of the state of her mental health. It is likely that she was self-taught, or took informal painting instruction from known Parisian or American painters of the early 20th century. Because of her husband fame, it is most certain that she rubbed elbows with famous artists of the day. Her style is vaguely reminiscent of the Surrealist artist Salvador Dali, and it is possible that she either drew inspiration or took instruction from him. Sadly, we may never know how many paintings, sketches or other works of art or writing of hers were lost in the fire that also took her life.</p>
                      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/Fitzgerald/Fitz_AMadTeaParty.jpg" alt=" A Mad Tea Party "></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">A Mad Tea Party</div>
                      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Still wondering about a painting in your family collection? <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/contact/contact1.php">Contact us</a>…it could be by Zelda Fitzgerald.</p>
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