Through the life and lens of Max Ewing (1903鈥�1934)鈥攁 young musician, photographer, and man-about-town who, although virtually unknown today, moved in extraordinary circles. In his photographs and letters, we meet the rising stars of modern art, music, dance, and literature and enter a world of interracial friendship, 鈥渜ueer space,鈥� and experimentation that shone brightly before being swept away by the Depression. It is a remarkable story that reveals that the history of modernism is more queer and more Black than previously recognized.
Alice T. Friedman is the Grace Slack McNeil Professor Emerita of American Art at Wellesley College and founding codirector of its Architecture Program. Her books include American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture and Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Cultural History.
The evenet will be hosted by Dr. Joshua Mardell, FSA, who is an architectural historian and a lecturer at the Royal College of Art. With Adam Nathaniel Furman he edited Queer Spaces: an Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places & Stories (RIBA, 2022). He is currently writing an Anglo-American study about women preservation activists in the mid-C20 and is one of the editors of the Journal of Architecture.