The figure of the artist is considerably more abstract and symbolic in George Braque's "Woman Seated at an Easel" in the same galleries.
Many of them studied and socialized together, belonged to the same organizations, exhibited at the same galleries and recorded those relationships in their art.
WORKING as a museum guard in the same galleries for hours and days and years could easily be a mind-numbing experience.
Early on, they knew many of the same people, exhibited at some of the same galleries, and suffered similar indignities when they found themselves known mostly for their relationships with hard-drinking, immensely famous male painters.
"This really came out of a kind of restlessness, the feeling that art forms are too often segregated, music played in the same clubs and art shown in the same galleries and museums," Mr. Aitken said in an interview.
The same galleries were home to another worthwhile historical look at the printed page, Marianne Fulton's "Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America". For contemporary art photography, 1990 was a vintage year.
