Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks

Page Fredericks' comment in his watercolor Isadora [Duncan].   "Far too heavy.  If only she would cut down and diet"

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I am no authority but it appears to me he hit a wall when faced with Duncan's politics of dancing. She wanted to be viewed without sexual interpretation.

Duncan wanted liberation, no constricting clothes, but freedom of choice and expression. She disapproved of sexual dances. The 20's were hard on her, as she fought jazz and african "shake that thing" lyrics. She hit her own wall. It seems that they both hit their limits in the 1920's.

I think Paget Fredericks was much happier painting Loie Fuller.    Here she is dancing to Debussy's La Mer.