A Conversation with Jane Rosen: Stay Here - Tell My Story

"I met Jane Rosen not long after I’d begun publishing an art magazine. She was living in a rented house on a horse ranch near San Gregorio Beach forty miles south of San Francisco, and was unmistakably, a New Yorker. In fact, she was having a hard time making a decision. Would she make her career in New York, where she already had a great start, or trust her chances in northern California in the Bay Area? She’d gone back and forth, literally, over a period of some years from East Coast to West Coast and back. She’d taught at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and at Stanford in Palo Alto. And at one point, she was offered a tenured position at Bard, where she’d be teaching with a close friend, Judy Pfaff.  For an artist, Manhattan was the place to be. Living on a horse ranch three thousand miles away would seem the antithesis. But the climate, the natural beauty of the coastal hills, the wildlife and the quiet exerted a powerful call, and then something happened that settled the question. It had to do with a red-tailed hawk..."