Synopses & Reviews
Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts, and the Beinecke Library
exhibition of the same name, will focus on several loosely defined groups of women, including communities in Taos, New Mexico and the American southwest (highlighting Georgia O'Keeffe and Mabel Dodge Luhan), Harlem and outposts of the Harlem Renaissance such as Chicago and Washington D.C. (including Zora Neale Hurston, A'Lelia Walker, and Georgia Douglas Johnson), New York City (considering Neith Boyce Hapgood, Eva Le Gallienne, Elinor Wylie, and Muriel Draper), the American Midwest (including Ruth Stephan, Katherine Kuh, Sara Teasdale), and expatriate communities abroad (highlighting Stein and Toklas, Romaine Brooks, H.D., Josephine Baker). The exhibition and catalog consider women who have made a variety of contributions to the arts: editors, patrons, curators, and partners as well as writers, artists, and performers.
Synopsis
Visionary American women stood at the forefront of many of the artistic and literary movements of the 20th century. Creative artists and writers such at Gertrude Stein, Mabel Dodge Luhan and Katherine Dunham fueled and promoted works by women in their efforts to make a new modern voice. This catalogue for the 2003 exhibition at Yale University's Beinecke Library explores the salons and the triumphs of many of the most important female artists of the past century.