Helen Langa – Romaine Brooks, 20th-Century Woman – Art Discussion, SAAM

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Session 3: Helen Langa, Associate Professor, Art History, American University.

Join eminent scholars Cassandra Langer, art historian and author of Romaine Brooks: A Life; Sylvia Kahan, Professor of Performing and Creative Arts, CUNY College of Staten Island; Helen Langa, Associate Professor, Art History, American University; and Virginia Mecklenburg, SAAM Chief Curator; for an in-depth look at the fascinating life and art of Romaine Brooks. They discuss the artist’s social sphere, her life in Paris in the 1920s, and how through a unique aesthetic and persona, Brooks flouted conventional roles for women.

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