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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.

From Joan Cox

  1. Origin of the Family by Joan Cox, Image 1.

    Origin of the Family

    oil on canvas

    54 x 96 x 2 in

  2. Twenty four months (formerly titled, Seventeen months) by Joan Cox, Image 1.

    Twenty four months (formerly titled, Seventeen months)

    mixed media

    60 x 40 x 40 in

  3. Seventeen Months by Joan Cox, Image 1.

    Seventeen Months

    Mixed Media

    60 x 40 x 40 in

  4. Nine Months by Joan Cox, Image 1.

    Nine Months

    Mixed Media

    60 x 40 x 40 in

  5. Love & revelry: the girls by Joan Cox, Image 1.

    Love & revelry: the girls

    Oil On Canvas

    24 x 24 x 1 in

  6. Love & revelry: The boys by Joan Cox, Image 1.

    Love & revelry: The boys

    24 x 24 x 1 in

  7. Starry Night at Long Nook Beach by Joan Cox, Image 1.

    Starry Night at Long Nook Beach

    Watercolor monotype on BFK Rives, framed

    22 x 30 in

  8. Love_Is_Everything_They_Said_it_Would_be by Joan Cox, Image 1.

    Love_Is_Everything_They_Said_it_Would_be

    48 x 60 x 1.5 in