Self-Portrait

1920

Robert William Vonnoh

Painter, American, 1858 - 1933

Artwork overview

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

By inheritance to the artist's wife, Bessie Potter Vonnoh Keyes [1872-1955]; bequest 27 June 1955 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1921

  • 116th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 16 February - 27 March 1921, no. 464, repro.

1923

  • An Exhibition of Work by Robert Vonnoh, N.A., Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, 1923, no. 17.

1925

  • Twentieth Annual Exhibition, City Art Museum of Saint Louis, Illinois, 1925.

  • National Academy of Design, New York, 1925.

1926

  • Exhibition of Works by Robert Vonnoh, N.A., Retrospect to Date, Durand-Ruel's Gallery, New York, 15-30 November 1926, no. 5, repro.

  • Tenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 April - 16 May 1926, no. 214.

1928

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Robert Vonnoh, N.A., Milch Galleries, New York, 1928, no. 7.

1983

  • Biennials of the Past, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 January - 1 April 1983.

1998

  • The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1922

  • Vonnoh, Robert. "The Relation of Art to Existence: A Noted Painter Voices Some Common-Sense Concerning Everyday Beauty." Arts & Decoration 17, 5 (September 1922): 328, repro.

1923

  • "Vonnoh's Half Century." International Studio 77 (June 1923): 231.

1973

  • Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 35, repro.

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 322, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: Vonnoh 1920 -

Wikidata ID

Q46633965

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