The Lavender Palette: Gay Culture and the Art of Washington State

$39.95 at Seattle Art Museum.

The first study of how gay and lesbian artists influenced and established a regional cultural identity in the first half of the twentieth century, this groundbreaking publication chronicles and contextualizes pioneering gay and lesbian artists from the pre-Stonewall era. Looking back as far as the 1910s, Cascadia Art Museum (Edmonds, WA) curator David F. Martin has unearthed astonishing works by both lesser-known and internationally famous artists. Created primarily from original research drawn from the…