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Highlights from Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

This 1942 portrait captures artist Marsden Hartley mourning the death of another man that Hartley admired. A shadowy man haunts the background of this portrait, taken by photographer George Platt Lynes in 1942, alluding to the loves of Hartley’s life that were lost and unspoken.

Marsden Hartley by Geoge Platt Lynes. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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