portraiture

Monday's image: March 22, 2021

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Lubaina Himid, Carpet, Acrylic paint on canvas, 1219 x 1524 millimeters, 1992, Tate Gallery, U.K.

Monday's image: February 8, 2021

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Manuel Álvarez Bravo, La Operacion Hospital, Juarez, Mexico, Gelatin silver print, 25.22 x 20.14 centimeters, 1935, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Monday's image: January 25, 2021

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Hughie Lee-Smith, Confrontation, Oil on canvas, 33 x 36 inches, 1970, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Monday's image: January 18, 2021

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Oscar Bony, 60 metros cuadrados y su información (60 Square Meters and Its Information), 16mm black and white film, silent, 3:30 minutes, 16mm projector, metal support, freestanding wall, wire netting, and text on paper, 237 x 393 inches, 1967, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Monday's image: January 4, 2021

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Fay Chandler, Keeping Calm, Mixed media, 72 x 96 inches, 1993, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Monday's image: October 26, 2020

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James Van Der Zee, Whittier Preparatory School, Phoebus, Va., Gelatin silver-toned print, 5.75 x 7.5 inches, Negative 1907, printed 1974, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Monday's image: August 3, 2020

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Dora De Larios, Ocean, Glazed porcelain, aluminum, brass, wood, 108 x 37 x 25 inches, 2009, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

Monday's image: May 11, 2020

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K. H. Hödicke, Magic Window Cleaner II, from Capitalist Realism, Screenprint on clear plexiglass printed on both sides, 830 x 590 millimeters, 1967, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Monday's image: March 30, 2020

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Reign of Ibrahim Adil Shah, Probably Bijapur Court, Deccani School, Double folio from a Kitab-i hasha’ish (The book of herbs), Opaque watercolor and ink on paper, 40 x 51 centimeters, 1595, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C.

Monday's image: March 23, 2020

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Arthur Dove, Silver Sun, Oil, metallic paint, and an unidentified material (possibly wax) on canvas, 55.3 x 74.9 centimeters, 1929, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Monday's image: March 16, 2020

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Holly Zausner, Unsettled Matter, Film still, 10 minutes 30 seconds (loop), 2015, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (Note: Video clip is hyperlinked via artist’s website).

Monday's image: March 9, 2020

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Paul Neagu, Tactile Object (Hand), Wood, metal, plastic, leather, textile and paper, 185 x 315 x 235 millimeters, 1970, Tate, U.K.

Monday's image: March 2, 2020

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Lara Favaretto, Ichi, Iron scaffolding pipes, wool, 4.25 x 350 x 514.25 centimeters, 2012, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah

Monday's image: January 13, 2020

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Jamal Cyrus, Untitled (Threads), Wax, ink on canvas, 31.25 x 24.25 inches, 2016, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, New York

Monday's image: November 11, 2019

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Ian Howard, Enola Gay, Black wax crayon rubbing on three sheets of paper (274 x 361 centimeters), two black and white photographs (99 x 116.7 each sheet), 1975, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Monday's image: November 4, 2019

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Serge Tousignant, Hommage à Magritte, Easel, mirror and coloured vinyl, 193 x 450 x 110 centimeters (variable length according to the exhibition area), 1970-74, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada

Monday's image: October 14, 2019

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Conrad Marca-Relli, Sleeping Figure, Collage painted canvas, 132.4 x 197.3 centimeters, 1953-54, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Monday's image: October 7, 2019

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Fazal Sheikh, Qurban Gul Holding a Photograph of Her Son Mula Awaz, Khairabad, Northern Pakistan, Toned gelatin silver print, 40.6 x 40.3 centimeters, 1998, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois