Americans in Paris: Exhibition Review
“‘Brilliant Exiles’: American Women In Early 20th-Century Paris”
Forbes, May 18, 2024

by Chadd Scott

What the American men of the so-called “Lost Generation”–Hemingway, Fitzgerald, that crowd–couldn’t find in early 20th century Paris, their female counterparts did. In abundance.

Purpose. Love. Fulfillment.

Between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II, American women such as Josephine Baker (1906–1975), Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), and Augusta Savage (1892–1962) left the States in pursuit of a more authentic life in the French capital than they could live at home.

Paris changed them. They changed Paris. And when they did return, they changed America.

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