Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act.

San Francisco American museums have largely ignored the work of Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980). Her glossy, glamorous, instantly recognizable portraits, which conjure the fashionable 1920s, have ...

One of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's most intriguing and impressively ... U.S. retrospective of the glamorous, cosmopolitan Art Deco painter. On view at the de Young Museum through ...

At the de Young, her first American museum retrospective is a stylish, persuasive argument for her rightful place in interwar art history, as well as a fascinating look at how ... (Photo by Gary ...

I was having one of those San Francisco days: A day when enough petty ... I looked up and found myself in front of one of my ...

With her portraits of red-lipped women painted like sculptures in resplendent jewel tones, the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka has posthumously become an Art Deco icon. Her figures are sumptuous ...

To step through the doors of DecoDance is to cross the threshold of a portal into the era of Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco ... Fitzgerald running amok in Art Deco 1920's Paris.