Louise Varèse

[1] Varèse founded and edited the modernist magazine Rogue (a play off of Vogue) with her then-husband, Allen Norton, from 1915 to 1916.

[8] Her address also appears on the label of Fountain as seen in the Alfred Stieglitz photograph of the work and her phone number was given as an alternative to Duchamp's as press contact.

[7][9] As such, she is a likely candidate for the "female friend" Duchamp mentions in a letter dated 11 April 1917 to his sister Suzanne: "Une de mes amies sous un pseudonyme masculin, Richard Mutt, avait envoyé une pissotière en porcelaine comme sculpture" ("One of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture.").

[7][10] Varèse translated poetry and other works by Charles Baudelaire, Julien Gracq, Saint-John Perse, Marcel Proust, Arthur Rimbaud, Georges Simenon, and Stendhal.

She played an important role in the International Composers' Guild,[12] and included material about this organisation in her book Varèse; a looking-glass diary (1972).