TitleSelf-Portrait
Artist
Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
(American, 1897 - 1983)
Date1948
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 24 × 20 in.
Framed: 30 11/16 × 26 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.
SignedSigned at lower left: "IVAN LE LORRAINE ALBRIGHT 1948"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, May 2, 1949
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number18-P
Label TextIvan Albright was elected Associate National Academician in 1942. He requested additional time to complete his self-portrait, which was granted by the Council. Six years later he had still not finished the portrait, and after another reminder by then Secretary, Eliot Clark, Albright responded in November 1948: "You may inform the Council at its next meeting that I have finished the Oil Self Portrait. I worked most of last year on it and would have had it done sooner save that I went thru a major operation at a hospital." The painting shows the artist in his new State Street studio in Chicago with the large window in the background.Collections
- Artist Portrait Highlights from the Collection
