The expectations of a woman
“Feeling Like Ophelia” by Leslie DuPratt, oil on linen.
Sparrow Gallery
Leslie DuPratt is often her own muse. She paints herself into many of her paintings. They comment on femininity and glamour and the rigmarole and servitude of housewifeyness—like wearing a fancy cocktail dress with pink rubber gloves and constantly reapplying lipstick, because it's hard to keep a house clean and to maintain youth and beauty forever as a woman.
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