A giant of early 20th century art, whose glamorous figurative paintings of women played an important role in defining Art Deco, is now the subject of her first-ever U.S. retrospective, currently at ...

You see this so often in her paintings that you begin to wonder if ... Her visual style came to epitomize art deco (more a design movement that borrowed from art than an art movement).

The outspoken painter was known for her daring art deco portraits ... nudes often reference classical paintings from the long tradition of men painting naked women,” says Kreitzer.