About Eileen Laderman
As unique and creative as her husband, Fred Laderman, Eileen was a visual artist who also had a deep love of literature. She created paintings, a range of sketches and drawings, and graphic art. She also co-managed a printshop, letterpress and all, in New York City, where she grew up. Further, she had a successful career hand-drawing ads for the Yellow pages, and brought that artistic eye and sense of composition to every artistic project, and to the home she made for herself and her husband.
She also wrote refreshingly original, poignant, and humorously candid stories (and named her daughter, Jennifer, after a poem by the English writer Leigh Hunt). And she was deeply engaged in community activities, too: organizing festivals and library bookfairs for which she designed the posters and flyers; working with the city to install benches at bus stops, for senior citizens and other riders; convincing a food company that had started to add sugar to their bread to remove it, for the sake of their consumers; and sending suggestions to newspapers about important issues of the day.
She was a voracious reader, and avant-garde thinker, to the last.
She also wrote refreshingly original, poignant, and humorously candid stories (and named her daughter, Jennifer, after a poem by the English writer Leigh Hunt). And she was deeply engaged in community activities, too: organizing festivals and library bookfairs for which she designed the posters and flyers; working with the city to install benches at bus stops, for senior citizens and other riders; convincing a food company that had started to add sugar to their bread to remove it, for the sake of their consumers; and sending suggestions to newspapers about important issues of the day.
She was a voracious reader, and avant-garde thinker, to the last.