Where do you go if you're a 20th century woman looking for a more enlightened way of living? Why Paris, of course! Janis Goodman takes us through "Brilliant Exiles" at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
This exhibit features 65 portraits by creative women living in Paris from 1900 to 1939. Mostly Americans, the women arrived in Paris as expatriates and were searching for artistic, personal, and professional freedom not available in the United States at that time. Their sisterhood and support network grew through regular salons at the homes of Gertrude Stein and Natalie Barney, who started the Academy of Women as a counterpoint to the all-male Académie française.
The genre of portraiture comes alive in this exhibition. Brilliant Exiles is on view at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery through February 23, 2025.
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