National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition “Reflections/Refractions: Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century,” runs from today through August 16.
Wendy Reaves, curator of prints and drawings, said that exhibit offers 187 portraits from 66 artists, including Alexander Calder, Edward Hopper, Chuck Close, David Hockney, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol.
The drawings “….in the exhibition make it clear how much of a ‘different species’ the self portrait is from a portrait done of a sitter and how much self-portraiture, a 500-year tradition, has changed just in the 20th century. In a self-portrait, as opposed to a commissioned portrait, for example, the artist doesn’t have to appease a patron.”
The announcement can be found here, and the photo gallery lives on this page.
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