The Artist Revealed: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits

April 12 - June 3, 2007

 

An artist's portrait, like all good portraits, offers the viewer more than physical features. One sees the unique characteristics of the sitter. Traditional portraiture often came with expectations that the image be a favorable likeness of the subject. Self-portraiture removed those restrictions enabling artists to be more experimental. This exhibition brings together fifty self-portraits and portraits of other artists. Included are works by Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Chuck Close, Norman Rockwell, Edward Steichen, and Anders Zorn. Sitters include Pablo Casals, Charlie Chaplin, Thomas Eakins, C.S. Lewis, and James McNeill Whistler.


Alex, Chuck Close, color woodcut, 1992, 23.5 x 19.5"

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