WOMEN OF MODERNISM
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PORTRAITS OF THE WOMEN OF TWENTIETH CENTURY MODERNISM IN OLD AGE
​Women were an integral part of the modernist avant-garde during the early decades of the twentieth century, making significant contributions to art and literature. The portraits in this series document some of these women in old age as a visual extension of my research into the work they created in their later years.
​(Scroll over images for each woman's name)
Alice B. Toklas 
1877--1967

Toklas, along with Gertrude Stein, was an integral part of the modernist Parisian avant-garde. The two women met the day Toklas arrived in Paris from San Francisco in 1907, and their partnership endured through both World Wars until Stein’s death in 1946. Through the weekly salons they hosted, their home become an important hub for notable writers and artists of the period, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Picasso and Matisse. While Stein focused on writing, Toklas supported her as secretary and an editor, and also managed household responsibilities. In her later years she wrote her memoirs and published The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, which was immortalized in the 1960s for a particular brownie recipe. Toklas died about  a month shy of her ninetieth birthday.
Alice B. Toklas 1877--1967
Alma Thomas 1891--1978
Alma Thomas, 1891--1978
Anna Akhmatova
1889--1966
Anna Akhmatova 1889--1966
Berenice Abbott
1898--1991
Berenice Abbott 1898--1991
Betty  Parsons 
1900--1982
Betty Parsons 1900--1982
Ada "Bricktop" Smith
1894--1984
Ada "Bricktop" Smith 1894--1984
Claude Cahun
1894--1954
Claude Cahun 1894--1954
Djuna Barnes
1892--1982
Djuna Barnes 1892--1982
Dorothea Tanning
1910--2012
Dorothea Tanning 1910--2012
Eva Zeisel  1906--2011
Eva Zeisel 1906--2011
Gertrude Stein
1874--1946
Gertrude Stein 1874--1946
Gisèle Freund
1908--2000
Gisèle Freund 1908--2000
Janet Flanner
1892-1978
Janet Flanner 1892-1978
Kati Horna  1912--2000
Kati Horna 1912--2000
Kay Boyle  1902--1992
Kay Boyle 1902--1992
Leonora Carrington
1917--2011
Leonora Carrington 1917--2011
Lotte Jacobi 1896--1990
Lotte Jacobi 1896--1990
Mabel Dodge Luhan 1879--1962
Mabel Dodge Luhan 1879--1962
Margaret Anderson 1886--1973
Margaret Anderson 1886--1973
Marianne Moore 
1887--1972
Marianne Moore 1887--1972
Meret Oppenheim
1913--1985
Meret Oppenheim 1913--1985
Mina Loy  1882--1966
Mina Loy 1882--1966
Natalie Clifford Barney 1876--1972
Natalie Clifford Barney 1876--1972
Pan Yuliang 1895--1977
Pan Yuliang 1895--1977
Peggy Guggenheim 1898--1979
Peggy Guggenheim 1898--1979
Radclyffe Hall
1880--1943
Radclyffe Hall 1880--1943
Romaine Brooks
1874--1970
Romaine Brooks 1874--1970
Simone De Beauvoir 1908--1986
Simone De Beauvoir 1908--1986
Sonia Turk Delauney 1885--1979
Sonia Turk Delauney 1885--1979
Zora Neale Thurston
1891--1960
Zora Neale Thurston 1891--1960
Elizabeth Catlett 1915--1912
Louise Nevelson 1899--1988
Bryher 1894--1983
Carol Rama 1918--2015
H.D. 1886--1961
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