We read with interest Hannah Elgar’s feature “How light a touch is too light?” (Aug. 3) about the handling of Gustave Caillebotte’s sexuality by the Art Institute and the renaming of the exhibition “Painting His World.” We were especially struck by the comments from Jonathan Katz because of our experience visiting the Caillebotte exhibit and “The First Homosexuals” at Wrightwood 659, curated by Katz.

I am a scholar of anti-discrimination law (and a faculty member at Loyola University Chicago School of Law), and my husband, David, is a teacher and student of art history. While we enjoyed the Caillebotte exhibit very much, we were disappointed at its elliptical (at best) treatment of Caillebotte’s sexuality, for two reasons. It seemed insensitive to the realities of class, which in large

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