TitleArtist in Residence: Self-Portrait
Artist
Aaron Bohrod
(American, 1907 - 1992)
Date1943
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 26 × 21 1/8 in.
Framed: 35 × 30 1/8 × 1 7/8 in.
SignedSigned at lower left: "Aaron Bohrod"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, December 3, 1951
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number121-P
Label TextBorn in Chicago, Aaron Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later at the Art Students League in New York. After his studies, Bohrod returned to Chicago and quickly gained a reputation through his paintings of the suburban and urban landscape of the area. He worked in a Regionalist style inspired by artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, later served as a war correspondence artist during World War II, and by the early 1950s had adopted a particularly American mode of Surrealism known as "Magic Realism."This painting was completed while Bohrod was artist-in-residence at the Southern Illinois Normal University (now Southern Illinois University), and fulfilled the requirement of his election as Associate National Academician. In a letter to Eliot Clark, then corresponding secretary of the Academy, in 1951 Bohrod wrote: "About the self-portrait aspect of things: I will-though I am not a portrait painter-try to comply with the requirement [of submitting a portrait]."
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