Departure by Romaine Brooks, ca. 1930 Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the artist Azalées Blanches (White Azaleas) by Romaine Brooks, 1910 Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the ...

Edouard Manet's "Olympia" scandalized nearly everyone when it was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon, its nude subject confronting the viewer with an unflinching gaze and brazen sexuality.

In the late 1960s, Romaine Brooks gave a sizable cache of paintings and drawings to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Brooks was then in her 90s, and her reputation was in serious decline.

Twentieth century painter Romaine Brooks introduces herself in a 1923 self-portrait: She wears a narrowly cut, long, black riding jacket with a white blouse. She has short cropped hair ...

The story of Romaine Brooks could have been a story of success, luxury, and the easy life since she was born into a very wealthy American family (her grandfather was a multi-millionaire). Learn why it ...

But this exhibit reminds us that too-long forgotten Romaine Brooks first set the tone for our current dyke derring-do photographers. A talented portraitist, Brooks painted important works that are ...

The Work: Romaine Brooks, Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 1923; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist What I want to tell you this piece: In my early days at the museum in the late ...

A wealthy American living in Paris, Brooks had the freedom to paint whatever and however she wanted. In a subtle but powerful palette, she... Painter Romaine Brooks Challenged Conventions In ...

"Hide/Seek," an exhibit of gay and lesbian portraits that drew controversy at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in 2010, comes to the Tacoma Art Museum on its only West Coast ...