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Self Portraits~August 24

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Self-Portraits  by  Elaine de Kooning

Self-Portrait #3 / 1946 / Oil on Masonite / 29 3/4”x22 5/8”) / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

 

 

 

 

 

Self-Portrait / 1946 / Oil and charcoal on canvas / 23 3/4”x19 3/4” / The Met, George A. Hearn Fund, 1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Self Portrait  by  Vivian Maier

1954 / Photograph / © Vivian Maier Estate/Estate of Vivian Maier and John Maloof Collection

Self Portraits~August 16

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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

Pride Month~ June 30

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Zanele Muholi (Born 1972)
South African artist and self-described visual activist
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/zanele-muholi

Bester V (Mayotte) / 2015 / Silver Gelatin Print / Paper: 23 3/4″x20″

 

 

 

 

Kehinde Wiley (Born 1977)
Applies the visual vocabulary of heroic portraits to contemporary subjects
http://akkad-design.com/KehindeWiley/Gallery/index_Bio.html

Three Graces / 2005 / Oil and enamel on canvas / 72″x96″

Pride Month~ June 28

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Alison Bechdel (Born 1960) Cartoonist, writer, and graphic memoirist
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/908/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Home

Patricia Cronin (Born 1963) New York based conceptual visual artist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Cronin

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-power-of-patricia-cronins-memorial-to-a-marriage

Pride Month~ June 26

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Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)  Nigerian-born British photographer
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/rotimi-fani-kayode

https://visualaids.org/artists/rotimi-fani-kayode

Keith Haring (1958-1990)  Bridged the gap between the art world and the street
http://www.haring.com/!/about-haring/bio#.WzKpdGRKilk

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18673537/
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Pride Month~ June 24

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Roger Brown (1941-1997)
A leading painter of the Chicago Imagist style
http://www.saic.edu/academics/librariesandspecialcollections/rogerbrown/biography/

Couple in Sumac Thicket / 1982 / Oil on canvas / 66 1/8”x120”

Annie Leibovitz (Born 1949)
Celebrated portrait photographer for RS, Vanity Fair, and Vogue
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/annie-leibovitz-life-through-a-lens/16/

HM Queen Elizabeth II / 2007 / C-type digital print / Image: 12 1/2”x18 3/4”

Pride Month~ June 23

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Nahum B. Zenil (Born 1947)
Mexican painter executes fantastic and macabre self-portraits
https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu/2015/12/nahum-b-zenil-witness-to-self/

Duelo (Sorrow) / 1989 / Oil and ink on paper / 20.6”x28.1”

Alvin Baltrop (1948-2004)
Photographer documented 70s and 80s gay culture in NYC
http://www.thirdstreaming.com/alvin-baltrop-trust/

The Piers (Tava from back) / No Date / Silver gelatin print / 4.5”x6.5”

Pride Month~ June 22

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Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
Photographer left a vast and provocative body of work
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/robert-mapplethorpe

Robert Rauschenberg / 1983 / Gelatine silver print on paper / 18 3/4”x14 7/8”

 

Martin Wong (1946-1999) Painter played a pivotal role in the Lower East Side arts scene in the 80s/90s
http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/martin-wong-human-instamatic

Attorney Street (Handball Court with Autobiographical Poem by Piñero) / 1982-84 / Oil on canvas / 35 1/2”x48”