Who Are They? Who Am I? Portraits of Artists and Artist Self-Portraits
Who Are They?/Who Am I? is drawn from the museum鈥檚 collection, which holds several hundred artworks that can be understood as portraits. This expansive exhibition presents portraits and self-portraits of and by a wide range of artists such as stage and screen actors, authors, composers, dancers, fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians, visual artists, and writers, all from different eras and depicted in a variety of media including paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture, and prints
Artworks vary from highly resolved formal portraits to works better described as informal sketches or snapshots and even more conceptual portraits, and are more personal or intimate. They range in date from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. Many are insightful, in various ways revealing information about the artist鈥檚 choices as well as portraying their subjects. Using a variety of visual approaches, the portraits capture the subjects鈥� appearance, mood, character, information about their time and environment, and they sometimes even tell stories.
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Who Are They?/Who Am I? is drawn from the museum鈥檚 collection, which holds several hundred artworks that can be understood as portraits. This expansive exhibition presents portraits and self-portraits of and by a wide range of artists such as stage and screen actors, authors, composers, dancers, fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians, visual artists, and writers, all from different eras and depicted in a variety of media including paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture, and prints
Artworks vary from highly resolved formal portraits to works better described as informal sketches or snapshots and even more conceptual portraits, and are more personal or intimate. They range in date from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. Many are insightful, in various ways revealing information about the artist鈥檚 choices as well as portraying their subjects. Using a variety of visual approaches, the portraits capture the subjects鈥� appearance, mood, character, information about their time and environment, and they sometimes even tell stories.
Artists on show
- Arthur Rothstein
- Ashley Frederick Bryan
- Barbara Pollack
- Beth van Hoesen
- Brad Kahlhamer
- Brassaï
- Carl Sprinchorn
- Cecil Beaton
- Charles Hewitt
- Claire Seidl
- Claire van Vliet
- David Seltzer
- Donna Ferrato
- Eileen Darby
- Eli Reed
- Eugène Devéria
- Frances Hodsden
- Fritz Eichenberg
- Hollis Sigler
- Jack Beal
- Jacques Lubin
- Jacques Villon
- James Lechay
- Jay Gould
- John Minihan
- John Muench
- Joseph Beuys
- Joyce Tenneson
- Joyce Treiman
- Leonard Baskin
- Lily Harmon
- Linda McCartney
- Marguerite Thompson Zorach
- Peggy Bacon
- Ralph Bartlett Goddard
- Richard Avedon
- Robert Capa
- Robert Farber
- Robert Feintuch
- Rona Pondick
- Samuel Fosso
- Sigmund Abeles
- Steven Speliotis
- Thomas Cornell
- Walker Evans
- William Claxton
- William Weege
- Xu Bing
- Yousuf Karsh
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