Self-Portrait, 1920

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 55.88 × 45.72 cm (22 × 18 in.)

framed: 71.76 × 62.23 × 8.89 cm (28 1/4 × 24 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Bessie Potter Vonnoh Keyes)

Accession Number

2016.22.13

Artists / Makers

Robert William Vonnoh (painter) American, 1858 - 1933

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Inscription

lower right: Vonnoh 1920 -

Provenance

By inheritance to the artist's wife, Bessie Potter Vonnoh Keyes [1872-1955]; bequest 27 June 1955 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Vonnoh, Bessie Potter

Exhibition History

1921: 116th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 16 February - 27 March 1921, no. 464, repro.

1923: An Exhibition of Work by Robert Vonnoh, N.A., Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, 1923, no. 17.

1925: National Academy of Design, New York, 1925.

1925: Twentieth Annual Exhibition, City Art Museum of Saint Louis, Illinois, 1925.

1926: Exhibition of Works by Robert Vonnoh, N.A., Retrospect to Date, Durand-Ruel's Gallery, New York, 15-30 November 1926, no. 5, repro.

1926: Tenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 April - 16 May 1926, no. 214.

1928: Exhibition of Paintings by Robert Vonnoh, N.A., Milch Galleries, New York, 1928, no. 7.

1983: Biennials of the Past, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 January - 1 April 1983.

1998: The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1922: Vonnoh, Robert. "The Relation of Art to Existence: A Noted Painter Voices Some Common-Sense Concerning Everyday Beauty." Arts & Decoration 17, 5 (September 1922): 328, repro.

1923: "Vonnoh's Half Century." International Studio 77 (June 1923): 231.

1973: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 35, repro.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 322, repro.