Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. Tamara de Lempicka (born Maria Górska, 1898-1980), who rose to prominence during the 1930s, was a Polish painter best known for her lavish art deco portraits of upperclassmen. A noteworthy player in high society herself, Lempicka controversially married Baron of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Raoul Kuffner, after painting a portrait of his former mistress in an unflattering manner; earning her the title: “The Baroness with a Brush.” Although her social reputation was connected to her career as a portraitist, Lempicka’s elegant neo-classical portraits of exiled nobility, scientists, fellow artists and scholars, constitute a unique take on art deco that led to her high demand as a portraitist. Unlike the hard geometric patterns that characterized the art-deco style, Lempicka used smooth Ingres-esque brushwork to style figures. "I was the first woman to make clear paintings"...