Self-Portrait
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
88.9 × 70.9 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Accession Number
1970.17
Tags
male
About this artwork
Ways to represent one's self preoccupied Abbott Handerson Thayer throughout his life, playing a large role in both his emotional development and technical skill as a self-portrait painter. His earliest self-portrait is dated May 6, 1879, though he may have begun the piece in 1876, reworking it several times. Becoming increasingly eccentric with age, Thayer expressed his "growing egotism" and didactic, self-righteous ways through his artwork, especially through the group of self-portraits compose...