This talk will take place during After Hours at the Speed, June 20, 2025. An After Hours ticket is required to attend this talk.

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Lost and Found: Recovering the History of American Women in Paris

Speaker: Robyn Asleson, Curator of Prints & Drawings, Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery

Many talented, independent-minded American women crossed the Atlantic during the first decades of the twentieth century to carry out transformative cultural work in Paris. Why do some of these women remain well-known today, while so many others have been forgotten? This presentation explores the divergent lives and afterlives of several unorthodox women who made their way to Paris—as well as  the curatorial detective work that brought their portraits to light.