Romaine Brooks

The exhibition begins with late nineteenth-century works by Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent and charts the twentieth century with major works by such American masters such as Romaine Brooks, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Terry Krepel: Manufactured Outrage Over Smithsonian Art Exhibit Terry Krepel 2010

The exhibition begins with late nineteenth-century works by Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent and charts the twentieth century with major works by such American masters such as Romaine Brooks, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Terry Krepel: Manufactured Outrage Over Smithsonian Art Exhibit Terry Krepel 2010

For example, in the seldom seen Romaine Brooks 'painting of critic, photographer and novelist Carl Van Vechten, there are barely visible faces of African-American boys in the dark background behind an icy-white, rather creepy Van Vechten.

Alison Teal: Hide/Seek and Don't Ask Don't Tell Alison Teal 2010

For example, in the seldom seen Romaine Brooks' painting of critic, photographer and novelist Carl Van Vechten, there are barely visible faces of African-American boys in the dark background behind an icy-white, rather creepy Van Vechten.

Alison Teal: Hide/Seek and Don't Ask Don't Tell Alison Teal 2010

For example, in the seldom seen Romaine Brooks 'painting of critic, photographer and novelist Carl Van Vechten, there are barely visible faces of African-American boys in the dark background behind an icy-white, rather creepy Van Vechten.

Alison Teal: Hide/Seek and Don't Ask Don't Tell Alison Teal 2010

For example, in the seldom seen Romaine Brooks 'painting of critic, photographer and novelist Carl Van Vechten, there are barely visible faces of African-American boys in the dark background behind an icy-white, rather creepy Van Vechten.

Alison Teal: Hide/Seek and Don't Ask Don't Tell Alison Teal 2010

For example, in the seldom seen Romaine Brooks 'painting of critic, photographer and novelist Carl Van Vechten, there are barely visible faces of African-American boys in the dark background behind an icy-white, rather creepy Van Vechten.

Alison Teal: Hide/Seek and Don't Ask Don't Tell Alison Teal 2010

For example, in the seldom seen Romaine Brooks' painting of critic, photographer and novelist Carl Van Vechten, there are barely visible faces of African-American boys in the dark background behind an icy-white, rather creepy Van Vechten.

Alison Teal: Hide/Seek and Don't Ask Don't Tell Alison Teal 2010

We ask the question of Van Vechten, as painted by Romaine Brooks.

National Portrait Gallery's 'Hide/Seek' finds a frame for sexual identity Blake Gopnik 2010

For example, in the seldom seen Romaine Brooks' painting of critic, photographer and novelist Carl Van Vechten, there are barely visible faces of African-American boys in the dark background behind an icy-white, rather creepy Van Vechten.

Alison Teal: Hide/Seek and Don't Ask Don't Tell Alison Teal 2010