1944, Horace Pippin, Self-Portrait -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the exhibition label: Contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall has described Pippin's self-portrait as a "monumental statement of self-confidence." In this small painting, tightly cropped at bust length, Pippin gazes confidently at the viewer, his firmly drawn reflecting a well-disciplined hand. Pippin portrayed his wife, Jennie Ora Fetherstone Wade Giles, at three times the scale of his own image, but he unified the two paintings by using a similar palette. Jennie's blue dress is echoed in the background of his portrait, while the background of her portrait is picked up in the artist's tie and button-down shirt.
1944, Horace Pippin, Self-Portrait -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the exhibition label: Contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall has described Pippin's self-portrait as a "monumental statement of self-confidence." In this small painting, tightly cropped at bust length, Pippin gazes confidently at the viewer, his firmly drawn reflecting a well-disciplined hand. Pippin portrayed his wife, Jennie Ora Fetherstone Wade Giles, at three times the scale of his own image, but he unified the two paintings by using a similar palette. Jennie's blue dress is echoed in the background of his portrait, while the background of her portrait is picked up in the artist's tie and button-down shirt.