Exhibit features more than 50 works of self-portraiture examining how American artists see themselves
Humans have been producing self-portraits ever since the first cave artist put brush to rock. Elaine de Kooning Self-Portrait, oil on Masonite, 1946. (Courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) Open at the Albuquerque Art Museum beginning Saturday, June 12, “Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery” gathers more than 50 works examining the ways American artists have portrayed themselves since the beginning of the last century. Curators have organized the exhibition chronologically by medium (photography, painting, printmaking and works on paper....