Curator Talk: Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1930 to 1939

How did American women refashion their identities in early-twentieth-century Paris? Find out by joining Robyn Asleson, the Portrait Gallery’s curator prints and drawings, for a tour of “Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939.” Viewing portraiture through the lens of fashion, the tour will explore the ways in which new modes of self-styling (including clothing, hairstyle, cosmetics, and deportment) enabled unconventional American women to express the revised personal and professional identities they developed in France.

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Image Credit: Self-portrait by Romaine Brooks. Oil on canvas, 1923 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist

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