Self-portrait or Simone Mary Bouchard at the start of her career, 1938
Oil on canvas / Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada
1. Self-Portrait, 1942 (detail) / Oil on canvas / Friedrich Petzel, New York
2. Expressive Self-Portrait, 1945 / Oil, charcoal on fiberboard / Maria Lassnig Foundation
3. Self-Portrait/Abstract Head, 1956 / Oil on Canvas / Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
4. Self-Portrait as Animal, 1963 / Oil on canvas / Maria Lassnig Foundation
5. Self-Portrait with Stick, 1971/ Oil, charcoal on canvas / Maria Lassnig Foundation
6. Transparent Self-Portrait, 1987 / Oil on canvas / Museum of Modern Art, NYC
7. Scientific Self-Portrait, 1994 / Graphite pencil on wove paper / Morgan Library & Museum, NYC
8. Self-Portrait with Rabbit, 2003 / Oil on Canvas / Hauser & Wirth, NYC
[Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun’s] virtuoso portrait of Robert in romantic mode, casually dressed, hair unkempt, palette and brushes in hand, gazing intently into the distance. It was painted in 1788, the year before the French Revolution, when Robert was in his mid-50s. By then he was one of France’s most celebrated and best-paid artists and had a clientèle that included Catherine the Great and the Russian aristocracy.
~FROM https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/arts/international/hubert-robert-and-the-beautiful-ravages-of-time.html
Portrait of Hubert Robert by Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun, 1788 / Oil on wood / Louvre Museum, Department of Paintings, Paris, FR
1. Untitled, 2015 / Pastel on paper / RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2. Standing Figure with African Masks, 2018 / Pastel and gouache on paper / Tate, London, UK
4. Self-Study, 2022 / Ortuzar Projects, Tribeca, NYC
Self-Portrait by Zulmé Maspero de la Mardel, c.1853 /
Oil on canvas / The Historic New Orleans Collection, LA
It was long believed that one of the three women in a large portrait of Emma Olivier, Olivia Olivier, and their sister-in-law, Zulmé, was an artist. A recent donation to The Historic New Orleans Collection of three portraits of the Olivier women included a circa-1853 oval portrait signed discreetly with a small letter “Z,” revealing Zulmé Maspero as the painter. The source of Maspero’s training is unknown, but her skill and technical proficiency are comparable with male painters of the same period.
FROM~ https://tfaoi.org/aa/9aa/9aa64.htm
Aiming to recreate the animals ‘from the inside’, Marc made himself so complete a master of their anatomy that he felt qualified to teach classes on the subject, though in the end there were few takers. This anatomical knowledge gave him the ability to improvise. From this point on, Marc did not aim to merely copy nature, but to capture the spirit of nature and of ‘animal life’.
~FROM https://www.gseart.com/artist/franz-marc/bio
1. Katze mit Jungen, 1900-1916 / Tempera, oil, pencil on cardboard / Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, Germany
2. Sketch, 1908 / Crayon on paper / Private collection
3. Two Horses, 1908-09 / Bronze / Lenbachhaus München, Germany
4. Yellow Cow, 1911 / Oil on canvas / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
5. Tierlegende (Animal Legend), 1912 / Woodcut on Japanese paper / Various locations
Franz Marc~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Marc
Why Did Franz Marc Paint Animals?
https://www.thecollector.com/why-did-franz-marc-paint-animals/
Franz Marc and the animalization of art
https://smarthistory.org/franz-marc-animal-art/
1. Self Colored Self Portrait, 2019 / Acrylic painting, fabric, sequins, and thread
2. Eyes Solemnly Swear, 2020 / Mixed media acrylic painting
“I knew Alice had a way of painting people so that you saw them in ways you’d never seen them before. I didn’t want to be uncovered in that way. Now I kind of wish I had done it back then—because today I definitely wouldn’t pose in the nude. So anyway, I put on this red dress and my hair was braided with beads, because I had just come back from my trip and I thought the beads would go over well in Ghana and Nigeria, and that I could pass as an African—but they all knew I was American.”
~FROM https://www.culturetype.com/2019/08/27/a-portrait-of-faith-ringgold-painted-by-alice-neel-is-jordan-casteels-favorite-artwork/
Portrait of Faith Ringgold by Alice Neel, 1977 / Oil on canvas / Private collection
In the Judeo-Christian flood story, God became angry with the sins of mankind. He told his faithful servant, Noah, to build an ark large enough for his family (which included eight people; his wife, his three sons and their wives) and two of every creature on earth. God delivered the promised deluge, killing everyone and everything on earth except the population of the ark.
~FROM https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/a-flood-of-myths-and-stories/
Noah’s Ark by Edward Hicks, 1846 / Oil on canvas / Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Edward Hicks~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hicks
https://bucksco.michenerartmuseum.org/artists/edward-hicks/
Genesis 5:32 to 10:1~
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%205%3A32-10%3A1&version=NIV
1. Autorretrato, 1982 / Oil on masonite / Private collection
2. Autorretrato, 1997 / Serigraph / Various collections
The Misty Miss Christy 