"The Fellows from the Fogg": Modernism, Homosexuality, and Art-World Authority

The spread of modernist painting in the early-twentieth-century United States was met with cries of "degeneracy" and "homosexual conspiracy." This essay explores the claims and counter-claims. Above all, Stoneley argues that the battles reflected larger shifts in art-world authority, with the museums and the "museum professional" emerging as controlling forces. © 2011 by The New England Quarterly.