This painting of two lesbian lovers on a couch floats on a dreamlike background of the Versailles Garden of L'Orangerie. By setting this private, domestic embrace against such a grand, historical backdrop, the painting insists that lesbian love belongs in the canon of romantic imagery and within the spaces that have so often erased it. It becomes both an intimate portrait and a quiet act of revision—rewriting who gets to be seen, adored, and remembered in the gardens of history.
Additional Artworks
From Joan Cox
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Origin of the Family
oil on canvas
54 x 96 x 2 in
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Twenty four months (formerly titled, Seventeen months)
mixed media
60 x 40 x 40 in
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Seventeen Months
Mixed Media
60 x 40 x 40 in
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Nine Months
Mixed Media
60 x 40 x 40 in
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Love & revelry: the girls
Oil On Canvas
24 x 24 x 1 in
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Love & revelry: The boys
24 x 24 x 1 in
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Starry Night at Long Nook Beach
Watercolor monotype on BFK Rives, framed
22 x 30 in
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Love_Is_Everything_They_Said_it_Would_be
48 x 60 x 1.5 in