Hide/Seek: Portraits of Djuna Barnes and Janet Flanner

Discussion by David C. Ward, co-curator of “Hide/Seek“ and Historian at the National Portrait Gallery. Janet Flanner (1892-1978) :In 1922, Janet Flanner settled in Paris with her lover, Solita Solano. She would spend the next fifty years writing her “Letter from Paris,“ a column that appeared regularly in the New Yorker. Flanner and Solano became fixtures in the salon life of the city, their homosexuality providing a crucial entrée into the most fashionable literary groups, which were then dominated by w