“Art is spellbinding; not always by the spells of beauty, but by the strange spells of power and fascination.”

Florine Stettheimer was a feminist artist and costume designer active in New York. She developed a colorful, theatrical painting style and often depicted her friends and family in various settings.

During her lifetime, Stettheimer exhibited her paintings in more than forty exhibitions and salons in New York and Paris. In 1938, when the Museum of Modern Art sent the first American art exhibition to Europe, Stettheimer and Georgia O’Keeffe were the only women whose works were included. After her death, the artist Marcel Duchamp organized a retrospective exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art. It was the museum’s first retrospective exhibition of a female artist.