150 Years: Fake Paintings at the League

150 Years: Fake Paintings at the League highlights works in the collection born from the influential turn of the century parody movement, The Society of American Fakirs. This group of League students held annual exhibitions where they created works of art that parodied established artists. Notable Fakirs like Georgia O’Keeffe, Antonio Barone, and James Montgomery Flagg painted humorous, subversive works that often skewered the styles and subject matter championed by the institutional establishment. Though many of Fakir works are no longer extant, the impact of the Fakir movement has been long-lasting, from their raucous Fakir Balls to the artists they funded through their scholarship auctions.

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Artists featured in this exhibition include Charles Shepard Chapman, Howard Chandler Christy, Allen Dean Cochran, James Montgomery Flagg, Beata Beach Porter, and Samuel Johnson Woolf.

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