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 ...

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.

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 ...

Dolly Wilde, Elizabeth Gramont, Romaine Brooks, Mimi Franchetti, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Liane de Pougy, Radclyffe Hall, Mina Loy, Janet Flanner and many more of the finest minds of her time ...

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 ...

“Au Bord de la Mer (At the Edge of the Sea [Self-Portrait]),” 1912, by Romaine Brooks. Musée National de la Coopération Franco-Américaine, Blérancourt, France “Una, Lady Troubridge ...

A wealthy American living in Paris, Romaine Brooks had the freedom to paint whatever and however she wanted. Don't let her sober, 1923 Self-Portrait fool you — Smithsonian curator Virginia ...