A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries
Artist, poet, musician, and academic Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648-1711)
Self-Portrait, 1672 / Oil on canvas / Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Self-Portrait, 1672 / Oil on canvas / Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Sister Gertrude Morgan (April 7, 1900-July 8, 1980) was a self-taught African-American artist, musician, poet, and preacher.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Morgan
New Jerusalem by Sister Gertrude Morgan
N.D. / Acrylic and ink on pieced card / 6 3/4″x7 3/4″ / Private collection
Sister Gertrude Morgan on Artnet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/gertrude-sister-morgan/
Further reading:
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/sister-gertrude-morgan-3413
https://www.bridgeprojects.com/artists/sister-gertrude-morgan
https://www.nga.gov/features/exhibitions/outliers-and-american-vanguard-artist-biographies/sister-gertrude-morgan.html
Published 1988 / Serigraph on Arches paper / 15″x22″ / Various collections; edition of 300
Glenn Gould recording Bach’s Goldberg Variations
at Columbia Records 30th Street Studio, NYC, June 1955
c.1934 / Tempera with oil on canvas, mounted on panel
45″x38″ / The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
1909 / Oil on canvas / 51″x31 1/2″ / Private Collection
1933 / Silver print / 13 1/2″x10 1/2″ / Private collection
Who was Hazel Scott?
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/piano/hazel-scott-jazz-entertainer-fought-racial-segregation/
1920 / Oil on canvas / 55 7⁄8″x74 1⁄4″ / Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC
“For artist Wassily Kandinsky, the [‘Pictures at an Exhibition‘] cycle served as a basis for his first and only theater project, which was premiered in the German city of Dessau in 1928. Wassily Kandinsky was out to create a synthetic ‘Gesamtkustwerk‘. For him, that meant that sounds took on hues that listeners could see before their eyes as they listened to the music. It was intended to be a Gesamtkustwerk of sound, color and motion.”
~ https://www.dw.com/en/kandinsky-and-mussorgsky-what-happens-when-artists-inspire-each-other/a-19087823
1928 / Graphite, India ink, and watercolor on paper
11 4/5″x15 3/4″ / Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Pictures at an Exhibition (original piano version) by Modest Mussorgsky
“One of Modest Mussorgsky’s best friends was Viktor Hartmann, an artist who tragically died of an aneurism in 1873 at the age of 39. Two weeks after Hartmann’s death, his friends and supporters organized a major exhibition of his works at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. About a year later, Mussorgsky composed ‘Pictures at an Exhibition‘. Completed in only twenty days, ‘Pictures’ was originally a set of short pieces for piano in which Mussorgsky depicted himself walking through the exhibition and contemplating Hartmann’s works.”
~ https://houstonsymphony.org/mussorgsky-pictures/
“In Russian folklore, Baba Yaga is a witch who flies through the woods on a mortar and pestle, searching for children to eat. She lives in a hut on hen’s legs that stalks the land. This movement was inspired by Hartmann’s design for an ornate clock in the shape of Baba Yaga’s hut.” [Watercolor. N/D]
~ https://houstonsymphony.org/mussorgsky-pictures/