Queer Frontier – Art Discussions in Honor of Pride Month
June 28, 3-4 pm – Marsden Hartley: A Gay American Artist
Never openly out, Hartley was well known to be gay and many of his paintings expressed his homosexual desire in coded, and not-so-coded ways. His time in New Mexico fundamentally changed his approach to painting and provided a respite from his grief at the loss of his lover in WWI. We’ll discuss one of his New Mexico paintings and his later career.