About Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Dada movement in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1917. She had earlier studied art and theater in Paris, and was working in New York as an actress. She later worked at sculpture and pottery. Wood was characterized as the "Mama of Dada". Wood partially inspired the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 film Titanic. She died nine days after her 105th birthday in Ojai, California. At the age of 90, Wood became a writer, having been encouraged by her friend Anaïs Nin.
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