Hide/Seek

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture catalogs last year's exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. I think the curators' selection of which specific image or images should represent each artist was brilliant. Examples below.

Goat's Horn with Red
1945
Georgia O'Keeffe

Una, Lady Troubridge
1924
Romaine Brooks

Arnold Comes of Age
1930
Grant Wood

Men Reading
1914
J.C. Leyendecker

Hugh Laing and Antony Tudor
1940
Carl Van Vechten

Dancing Sailors
1917
Charles Demuth

Djuna Barnes
1926
Berenice Abbott

Margaret French, George Tooker and Jared French, Nantucket
c. 1946
PaJaMa

Joseph Cornell
1933
Lee Miller

Eight Bells Folly: Memorial to Hart Crane
1933
Marsden Hartley

Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
1925
Florine Stettheimer

River Front No. 1
1915
George Bellows

Nude
1947
Agnes Martin

"Before she died, Martin attempted to reacquire and destroy all of her figurative works." – from the catalogue, p. 144.