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December 19, 1907~ Hugo Simberg sends a postcard from the United States

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Self-Portrait by Hugo Simberg

1907 / Oil on canvas / 17”x14” / Finnish National Gallery: Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

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“Over the Ocean: Hugo Simberg in America”~
https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/exhibitions/an-ecstasy-of-beauty/over-the-ocean-simberg-in-america#ve-anchor-intro_14488-js

“Amerikka” (24 photos)~
http://www.lahteilla.fi/simberg/?fbclid=IwAR1_ai8HAuMvGY1q60JtYvVBOf5Ak2tAvbTttEFUGfGXImk-PnwLUpWJbXw#en/line/826/keyword/Amerikka

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Previous December 19 posts:

December 19~ Animals in Art

Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/19~

November 14, 2019~ “Through My Travels I Found Myself” opens tomorrow at Finnish art museum

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Self-portrait, Black Background by Helene Schjerfbeck

1915 / Oil on canvas / 18”x14” / Finnish National Gallery: Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

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Previous November 14 posts:

November 14~ Artists at their Easels

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/14~

October 5, 1869~ Finnish painter Ellen Thesleff is born

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Self-Portrait by Ellen Thesleff

1894–95 / Pencil and sepia ink on paper / 12 1/5”x9 1/4”
Finnish National Gallery: Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

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Previous October 5 posts:

Autumn~ October 5

Maya Lin: Born October 5, 1959

Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/5~

Self Portraits~August 31

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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 30

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Self-Portrait, New York City  by  Richard Avedon

2002 / Gelatin silver print / Sheet: 24 7/8”x57” / Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Self Portrait with Red Braces  by
David Hockney

2003 / Watercolor on paper
/ 24”x18 1/8”
/ Private collection

Self Portraits~August 29

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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

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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 27

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Self-Portrait  by  Jacob Lawrence

1977 / Gouche on tempera on off-white wove paper / 22 1/8”x30” / National Academy of Design, New York

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Self Portrait  by  Robert Mapplethorpe

1980 / Gelatin silver print / Sheet: 19 7/8”x16”
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift of Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

Self Portraits~August 26

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Self-Portrait  by  Andy Warhol

1967 / Oil and silkscreen ink on canvas /45”x67 1/2” / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled #479 by Cindy Sherman

1975 / 23 hand-colored gelatin silver prints / 20 1/2”x33 1/2” / Collection of Dorothy & Peter Waldt

Self Portraits~August 25

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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