SOURCE: “Eugene Paul Ullman and the Paris Expatriates,” in Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter, 1984, pp. 99-118.

In the following excerpt, Ullman—the son of painter Eugene Paul Ullman—uses his father's unpublished memoirs to present the multi-cultural milieu of Paris during the 1920s.

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It has been noted in some instances that the family of a deceased artist will manifest hostility to his memory, treating it and his work with scorn. In such cases we can intuit the artist's absorbing devotion to his art, to the detriment of those for whose welfare he is responsible. In other instances, an artist's children give their lives over to the cult of his creations, maintaining his fame or magnifying it posthumously. Without doubt, if an artist's significance for the history of art could be determined with certainty at his death, the course of action to be taken by his relatives...