"Working woman. Storyville, New Orleans," says the caption, circa 1900,
wall accordingly adorned with an unframed print of the running figures
so much beloved and belabored by then-reigning Neo-Classicists and later
inherited more or less verbatim by the neo-Neo-Classicist Picasso.
"Working woman. Storyville, New Orleans," circa 1900, at about the same
moment that Jelly Roll Morton was inventing jazz in a Storyville bawdy-house,
and instead of Storyville, you might just as well call it "City of the Arts."
