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The de Young Museum in San Francisco is presenting a landmark American exhibition on Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka

Born in Poland, married in Russia and celebrated in Paris, Tamara de Lempicka and her works are widely known across the Atlantic Ocean, where she was then, and remains still today, an icon of Art Deco. But Lempicka’s reach extended to North America, including in 1939 when the artist, fleeing the outbreak of World War II, moved to the United States, where she would remain until her death in 1980.

Although a large chapter of her career was spent in North America—in Beverly Hills, California; Houston, Texas; and Cuernavaca, Mexico—Lempicka has never received a museum retrospective in the United States. The de Young Museum is correcting that with Tamara de Lempicka now open in San Francisco.