Romaine Brooks
Portrait artist
Born on: May 1, 1874Died on: December 7, 1970
Aged: 96 years 220 days (1159 months)
Gender: Female
Nationality: American
Birth Sign: Taurus
Romaine Brooks was an American painter who worked mostly in Paris and Capri. She specialized in portraiture and used a subdued tonal palette keyed to the color gray.
Brooks ignored contemporary artistic trends such as Cubism and Fauvism, drawing on her own original aesthetic inspired by the works of Charles Conder, Walter Sickert, and James McNeill Whistler.
Her subjects ranged from anonymous models to titled aristocrats. She is best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress, including her self-portrait of 1923, which is her most widely reproduced work.
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