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Where lies the final harbor whence we unmoor no more? Where is the foundling's father hidden? Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.
--Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Elie Nadelman died on December 28, 1946. Within the week, the art enthusiast Lincoln Kirstein, best known as general director of the New York City Ballet, paid a visit to the Nadelman home in Riverdale, The Bronx. The estate was a bohemian plot called Alderbrook. In the final years of his life, Nadelman had suffered many personal and professional setbacks: the loss of much of his ...