Early avant-garde artists subsisted on menial minimum-wage seasonal jobs

Evidence

Washing dishes for 65 cents an hour, Jacobs was hired by the newly renovated Crown & Anchor on Commercial Street to spear trash on the beach. Smith also found a restaurant job, from which he was soon fired for stealing food. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 210

Categorization

• SHARE: Good concrete datapoint for someone working on the economics of artistic bohemia — 65 cents an hour dishwashing.
• XREF: connects to: Being artistically ahead of one’s time does not pay — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 223