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| Thérèse Schwartze Portrait of Mrs A.G.M. van Ogtrop-Hanlo and her five children 1906 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
The eldest daughter above has, like mother, graduated to the display of imposing headwear, while the younger ones evidently can be left unencumbered until they grow a bit. It is no longer altogether possible to reconstruct the functioning web of social custom that regulated the shape and size and disposition of hats at the turn of the 20th century – the rules varied by age and gender and region and class. Everyone understood them at the time, yet no one could fully explain then or now why they carried such weighty significance. It was less a matter of fashion than a matter of morality, that much is clear. Decent or Indecent – those were the words that attached themselves to people who did or did not wear the proper hat in the proper way at the proper time in the proper place.
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| Edmund Charles Tarbell Preparing for the Matinee 1907 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Hugh Ramsay Self-portrait in white jacket 1901-02 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Helen Margaret Spanton Portrait of a Lady ca. 1900-1910 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Richard Gerstl Portrait of Henryka Cohn 1908 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| George Bellows Frankie the Organ Boy 1907 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City |
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| Thomas Eakins Monsignor James P. Turner 1906 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City |
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| William Sergeant Kendall An Interlude 1907 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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| Lovis Corinth Family of the painter Fritz Rumpf 1901 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
Seven large figures lighted from behind, plus the traditional object of interest in the composition's lower right corner (a parrot). Eight beings, each occupying ample space for a completed personality. Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) remains a vastly underrated master. In 1958-59 on the centenary of his birth there was a retrospective at Tate Britain. Musée d'Orsay staged a similar show on the 150th birthday in 2008, yet outside Germany the name still generally fails to resonate.
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| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait of Madame Marthe X―Bordeaux 1900 oil on canvas Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan |
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| Édouard Vuillard Knitting woman in pink dress ca. 1900-1905 oil on cardboard Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Alexei von Jawlensky Portrait of a girl 1909 oil on cardboard Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Max Slevogt Portrait of dancer Marietta di Rigardo 1904 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Czardas Dancers ca. 1908 oil on canvas Gemeentemuseum, The Hague |