Self-Portrait

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TitleSelf-Portrait

Artist Gladys Rockmore Davis (American, 1901 - 1967)

Date1939

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 16 × 13 in. Framed: 20 1/2 × 17 5/8 × 2 3/8 in.

SubmissionANA diploma presentation, April 6, 1942

Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY

Object number332-P

Label TextDavis’s Self-Portrait of 1939 is definitely glamorous, revealing the artist’s beautiful features, including her high cheekbones, and luminous light eyes. Her headgear, some yardage of fabric ending in a rose-like knot at the front, echoed again in the strange, surrealist brooch - a hand holding a rose - are all posed against a rose-hued ground. It is interesting to ponder Davis’s rather personal use of the long held fascination with the rose.

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