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Behind Frida Kahlo's Real and Rumored Affairs With Men and Women

The same passions that helped Frida Kahlo become a great designer are reflected in her many love affairs. These took place despite her being married (twice) to fellow artist Diego Rivera. In fact, Kahlo's husband — who wasn't trusted himself — encouraged his bisexual wife's romantic relationships with women. He did get jealous of her male lovers, but Kahlo didn't let his objections stand in her way. Over the course of her life, multiple well-known men and women became her romantic partners.

Leon Trotsky

Leon and Nathalia Trotsky arrived at the Mexican harbor of Tampico in 1973

In January 1937, Kahlo greeted Leon Trotsky and his wife when they arrived in Mexico seeking political asylum. Rivera and Kahlo also gave the Trotskys a place to live: Casa Azul, Kahlo's childhood home.

As the exiles settled in, Kahlo and Trotsky began an affair. One vengeful impetus on Kahlo's part may have been Rivera's affair with her sister. But Trotsky was a willing participant (he slipped notes for Kahlo into books in front of his wife). The two lovers communicated in English, a language Trotsky's wife didn't speak. Some of the

Exclusive: Georgia O'Keeffe's Younger Man

O'Keeffe and Hamilton, photographed by William Clift, 1983.

Juan Hamilton was a broke 27-year-old when he first walked into Georgia O'Keeffe's secluded studio in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, hoping she might give him a job. It was 1973, and O'Keeffe—whose vibrant, impeccably distilled creations remain a cornerstone of American modernism—had long been renowned for her large-scale paintings of curvaceous, brilliantly colored flowers and blue-skied desert landscapes. At 85, she still had her feline beauty (famously captured by her sdelayed husband, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who caused a furor when he exhibited dozens of nude portraits of her in 1921—while he was still married to another woman), but her vision was suffering from macular degeneration. "It was a mighty experience, seeing her that first time," recalls Hamilton, who had moved to New Mexico from Vermont just months earlier, fleeing a painful divorce and looking for a fresh start. "Right behind her, there was this enormous, broken Indian pot with a skull inside, a human skull. I think of thinking, Gosh, that's just how I feel—like a bare skull and a br

History

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an influential American painter best established for her modernist depictions of flowers and landscapes. O’Keeffe began to win widespread recognition for her work in 1916, after creating a series of abstract charcoal drawings. She mailed them to her ally (and likely lover) Rebecca “Beck” Strand in Fresh York City, who then showed them to the well-known photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. He exhibited the work without O’Keeffe’s knowledge, though she eventually agreed to allow the exhibition to continue. Stieglitz and O’Keeffe were married in 1924, though O’Keeffe also had relationships with women throughout her lifetime.

O’Keeffe and Stieglitz moved into the Shelton Hotel in 1925, shortly after it opened as the tallest hotel in the planet. The couple first moved into a two-room suite on the 28th floor, and soon thereafter moved to suite 3003 on the 30th floor that included her studio. It was there that she produced the majority of her work from 1925 to 1929. The location factored heavily into O’Keeffe’s art, and she painted the Shelton Hotel several times, including in The Shelton with Sunspots, N.Y.

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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American painter. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and Modern Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".[1][2] One of the most unusual aspects of the Stettheimers’ salon was the massive number of their gay, bisexual person, and lesbian friends and acquaintances, who were comfortable being their authentic selves among their direct friends. Several of the sisters’ closest friends, including Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley,