Just when we thought we knew the landscape of French art in the first quarter of the 20th century, Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris, co-curated by Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang, shakes up the narrative with a fresh exhibition of a major Parisian painter largely neglected by art history. A bisexual woman (already two reasons for her prior invisibility in that now dated story), Laurencin (1883–1956) carefully crafted a “feminine” aesthetic into a significant body of work that was ahead of its time.
“The very act of drawing made me participate in the life around me.” So said Adolf Dehn, draftsman, lithographer, and watercolorist. A collection of his work is on display at Creekville Art & Antiques in Menemsha. They represent a period of three years, from 1933 to 1935, when Dehn spent summers in Chilmark and Gay […]
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