Myself
1925
Painter, American, 1887 - 1956
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on composition board
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)
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Dimensions
overall: 68.58 × 60.96 cm (27 × 24 in.)
framed: 81.28 × 73.66 × 7.62 cm (32 × 29 × 3 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.48
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; purchased March 1926 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1926
Tenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 April - 16 May 1926, no. 198, repro.
1950
Loan to display with permanent collection, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, June - November 1950.
1963
A Century and a Half of American Painting: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, 3 April - 13 May 1963, no. 34.
1998
The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1966
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 125-126.
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 316, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: Leopold Seyffert / 1925
Wikidata ID
Q46634325