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Self-Portrait  1906

by Frederick William MacMonnies

Around 1898 Frederick W. MacMonnies suddenly abandoned his successful career as a sculptor to take up painting, but a lack of commercial success ultimately forced him to quit the medium in about 1906. At least nine self-portraits from this period are known. While in several of these MacMonnies holds a palette and brush, here he does not identify as an artist. Rather he por...
Size: 
54.6 × 45.7 cm (21 1/2 × 18 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago