Eli by Lucian Freud
2002 / Oil on canvas / 28”x24” / Private collection
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Officer of the Hussars by Kehinde Wiley
2007/ Oil on canvas / 120”x120” / Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
Tag Archives: African-American artist
Self Portraits~August 31
Self-Portrait by Yayoi Kusama
2008 / Acrylic on canvas / 89 1/2”x71 1/2” / Private collection
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Self-portrait staged for Flaunt Magazine by Kehinde Wiley
2011 / Cover photograph / Issue 114, Flaunt Magazine
Self Portraits~August 29
Untitled (Self-portrait from Kitchen Table series) by Carrie Mae Weems
1990 / Gelatin silver print / 28.3”x28.3” / Various
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Self Portrait in a Yellow Waistcoat
by Desmond Haughton
1993 / Oil on canvas / 32”x18”
/ Royal Holloway, University of London
Self Portraits~August 28
Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features by Adrian Piper
1981 / Pencil on paper / 10”x8” / The Eileen Harris Norton Collection
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Self Portrait as a Heel by Jean-Michel Basquiat
1982–1982 / Acrylic and Oilstick on Canvas / 50”x40” / Private Collection
Self Portraits~August 25
Early Works #25: Self-Portrait by Faith Ringgold
1965 / Oil on canvas / 50”x40” / Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum
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Reflection with Two Children (Self-Portrait) by Lucian Freud
1965 / Oil on canvas / 35 3/4”x35 3/4” / Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Self Portraits~August 23
Self Portrait by Loïs Mailou Jones
1940 / Casein on board / 17 1/2”x14 1/2” / Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Me and My Parrots by Frida Kahlo
1941 / Oil on canvas / 32”x24 1/2” / Collection Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Stream, New Orleans
Self Portraits~August 16
Self-Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz
Negative 1907; print 1930 / Gelatin silver print / 9 3/4”x7 1/4” / The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Self-Portrait by Henry Ossawa Tanner
c.1910 / 8 1/2”x8 3/8” / Pencil and conte crayon on paper / Smithsonian American Art Museum
Self Portraits~August 9
Portrait of a Man, Called a Self-Portrait by Julien Hudson
1839 / Oil on canvas / 8 3/4”x7” / Collections of Louisiana State Museum, LA
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Gustave Courbet: Self-Portrait with a Black Dog by Gustave Courbet
1842-1844 / Oil on canvas / 18.2”x21.8” / Petit Palais, Paris
Love & War~ May 14
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
“Peace Halting the Ruthlessness of War”
1917 / Bronze cast sculpture / 14”x16 3/4”x9”/ Private collection
In May, 1917, Meta Warrick Fuller took second prize in a
competition under the auspices of the Massachusetts Branch of the Woman’s Peace Party, her subject being “Peace Halting the Ruthlessness of War.” War is personified as on a mighty steed and trampling to death numberless human beings. In one hand he holds a spear on which he has transfixed the head of one of his victims.
(Learn more by clicking on hyperlinks)
Download a pdf file of “AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN The Life and Art Of Meta Warrick Fuller” here: http://www.danforthart.org/assets/forms/meta_fuller_catalog_1984-5.pdf
February 28~ African-American visual artists
Amy Sherald (Born 1973)
African-American painter known for her life-size portraits of Black Americans
https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/amy-sherald
The Rabbit in the Hat / 2009 / Oil on canvas / 54”x43”
Kehinde Wiley (Born 1977)
African-American artist who quotes historical images in a modern context
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kehinde-Wiley
