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Friends today I’ve been learning about American Impressionist painter Ellen Day Hale, because I saw this painting of her and thought “That is not a heterosexual woman” and obviously needed to drop everything and research.

And look I was prepared for a lot of ambiguity and a lot of disclaimers but what I actually found might officially be one of the queerest paragraphs I’ve ever read:

They’re lesbians, Harold.

Also, this is my favorite painting of Hale’s, and like, LOOK at this woman:

She is reading her OWN damn news. That complexion has never once been plagued by a husband smoking behind his morning paper. Her lover Joan made the coffee and now is changing into a fabulous pair of jodhpurs and heading out to work with the new mare, who tends to be skittish but is responding well to Joan’s firm yet gentle demeanor.