Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris
NOW AVAILABLE TO WATCH AT HOME
Based on the stunning exhibitions from MFA Boston and Tate Britain which took the art and fashion worlds by storm earlier this year, John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger is now available to watch at home. This film takes you on a journey through the exhibitions and beyond to a glittering world of high fashion, simmering scandal and shameless self-promotion which made Sargent the painter who defined an era. John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger is now available to purchase from the Exhibition on Screen shop.
Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939
During the early twentieth century, Paris was the destination of choice for talented and independent American women who were determined to move beyond the limitations that restricted them at home. As foreigners in a cosmopolitan city, they escaped the societal expectations and constraints of both the United States and France. Many used their newfound liberty as an opportunity for self-reinvention and discovery.
National Portrait Gallery-Washington DC
Through Feb 23, 2025
American Women Artists in France
For the American women who made Paris their home during the early decades of the twentieth century, the city offered unique opportunities for personal emancipation and professional innovation. While living as expatriates in the international center of all things avant-garde, these women escaped the constraints that limited them at home and enjoyed unprecedented freedom and autonomy. Through portraiture, this volume illuminates the histories of sixty convention-defying women who contributed to the vibrant modernist milieu of Paris—including Berenice Abbott, Josephine Baker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Peggy Guggenheim, Romaine Brooks, and Gertrude Stein. Several of them rose to preeminence as cultural arbiters while exploring culture-shifting experiments in fields such as art, literature, publishing, music, fashion, journalism, theater, and dance.
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