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Romaine Goddard Brooks

Romaine Goddard Brooks (1874 - 1970) was active/lived in Pennsylvania / France, Italy.  Romaine Brooks is known for Female portrait and androgynous figure painting, line drawing.

Embodying the image of the "third sex" or woman trapped in a man's body in her androgynous female portraits, Romaine Brooks was an American citizen who spent most of her life in Paris fleeing from the physical abuse of her mother and insanity of her brother. Her early life was detailed in her unpublished autobiography No Pleasant Memories.

Many of the subjects of Brooks portraits including her own self portrait (Smithsonian American Art Museum) were shown in tuxedoes with pinched faces and in colors of grey, black, and white. Her work was part of the new, daring image of the 20th-century woman no longer in the shadow of men.

She was born into a wealthy family, and her parents divorced before her birth. In 1899, she took off for art school, studying briefly at the Scuola Nazionale in Rome and the Academie Colarossi in Paris, two of the few schools that would admit women. Later she stayed on the Isle of Capri, becoming part of the Anglo-American expatriate community   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4691 characters.]  Artist bio

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