Jack Smith’s Normal Love was financed by railway-heir patron Jerome Hill
Evidence
Jerome Hill (whose grandfather founded the Great Northern Railway), Smith embarked on a color, plein air extravaganza, first called The Great Pasty Triumph, then (briefly) The Pink and Green Horrors, and finally Normal Love. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 438
Categorization
- XREF: Patronage as material condition — wealthy individual funding the outlaw artist — relevant to the reader’s infrastructure thesis.