TitleSelf-Portrait
Artist
Albin Polasek
(1879 - 1965)
Date1927
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 25 in.
SignedSigned at upper left: "Albin Pol sek/sculptor"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, April 191, 1927
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1011-P
Label TextPol sek's diploma portrait was painted in Chicago during the winter of 1927 specifically for the National Academy. The sculptor depicted himself in a Moravian embroidered shirt with one of his scupltures (Maiden of the Roman Campagna) in the background. He had had little or no experience in painting in oils but decided to execute the work himself when he was unable to find a painter suitable for the task. According to Sherwood, Pol sek sent the finished portrait to the Academy "in a richly carved frame of [his] original Slavonic design."
