A Comet and A Candle

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106 – October, 2021

By Sarah Montague

The fancy lost two strong women last year: Iris Love and Sue Jeffries. They inhabited different spheres, but both contributed hugely to the fancy and its extended communities. They are remembered as inspiring mentors and teachers and as generous and beloved friends. In this first of two articles, we celebrate the incandescent Iris Love.

Ancient Gods and Modern Dogs

The dog show community knew Iris Love primarily as a breeder of champion dachshunds, and in more recent years, as a co-owner of Westminster Best In Show winners Palacegarden Malachy (2012) and Pequest Wasabi (2021).

But Love also inhabited—infamously—wider spheres. Her New York Times obituary (4/23/20) called her “Indiana Jones in a miniskirt, a celebrity archaeologist hatched out of old New York aristocracy.”

Iris had an open, elfin face and a cloud of blonde (later silvery) hair, and was as lithe as you’d expect a female Indiana Jones to be. She was a fearless professional, a stylish social radical, and generous patron of the arts. But most of all, she was a supportive friend and mentor.

In archaeology, she is best known for her work at the 11-year dig at Knidos, an ancient Greek city that is now part of Turkey. And the friends and colleagues of Love’s to whom I spoke sound something like a Greek chorus when they speak of her. You will read their tributes, and memories, and stories, below. But the printed page cannot convey the love and sorrow in their voices.

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106 – October, 2021

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