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This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today

June 25 – October 23, 2016

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Presented by Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Presented by Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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Examining the use of symbolic, abstract, and conceptual strategies to convey likeness, "This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" is the first show to explore the impressive breadth of non-mimetic portraiture in modern and contemporary American Art.

39 Artworks

Pablo Picasso, 1909

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marius de Zayas

Agnes Meyer, 1912-1913

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Portrait of M.H. (Marsden Hartley), 1915

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marsden Hartley

Portrait, ca. 1914

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Charles Sheeler

Baroness Elsa’s “Portrait of Duchamp", ca. 1920

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 2, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 4, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 6, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Boîte-Series D (based on Boîte-en-Valise, 1935– 41), 1961

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Robert Rauschenberg

This Is a Portrait of Iris Clert If I Say So, 1961

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Robert Rauschenberg

Self-Portrait [for The New Yorker Profile], 1964

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Self / Portrait, 2013

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Carolee Schneemann, from Portraits of Eight New York Women, 1970

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Yvonne Rainer, from Portraits of Eight New York Women, 1971

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Für K. v. K., 1990

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Asphere, 1988-1990

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marius de Zayas

Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer, 1914

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marius de Zayas

Alfred Stieglitz, 1914

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Francis Picabia

Ici, C'est Ici Stieglitz Foit et Amour, 1915

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marsden Hartley

One Portrait of One Woman, 1916

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K.N.R., No. 1, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 3, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 5, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Edward Steichen

Mushton Shlushley, the Lyric Poet and Aestheticurean, ca. 1922

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Space Writing (Self-Portrait), 1935

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Walter De Maria

Cage II, 1965

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Wrap: Portrait of Eva Hesse, 2001

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Robert Rauschenberg

Autobiography, 1968

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Untitled (I Am an Invisible Man), 1991

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

39 Artworks:

Pablo Picasso, 1909

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marius de Zayas

Alfred Stieglitz, 1914

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marsden Hartley

Portrait, ca. 1914

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K.N.R., No. 1, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 4, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Edward Steichen

Mushton Shlushley, the Lyric Poet and Aestheticurean, ca. 1922

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Robert Rauschenberg

This Is a Portrait of Iris Clert If I Say So, 1961

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Robert Rauschenberg

Self-Portrait [for The New Yorker Profile], 1964

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Robert Rauschenberg

Autobiography, 1968

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marius de Zayas

Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer, 1914

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Francis Picabia

Ici, C'est Ici Stieglitz Foit et Amour, 1915

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Charles Sheeler

Baroness Elsa’s “Portrait of Duchamp", ca. 1920

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 3, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 6, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Space Writing (Self-Portrait), 1935

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Wrap: Portrait of Eva Hesse, 2001

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Self / Portrait, 2013

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Yvonne Rainer, from Portraits of Eight New York Women, 1971

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Untitled (I Am an Invisible Man), 1991

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marius de Zayas

Agnes Meyer, 1912-1913

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Portrait of M.H. (Marsden Hartley), 1915

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marsden Hartley

One Portrait of One Woman, 1916

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 2, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 5, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Boîte-Series D (based on Boîte-en-Valise, 1935– 41), 1961

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Walter De Maria

Cage II, 1965

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Carolee Schneemann, from Portraits of Eight New York Women, 1970

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Für K. v. K., 1990

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Asphere, 1988-1990

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Pablo Picasso, 1909

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Portrait of M.H. (Marsden Hartley), 1915

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Charles Sheeler

Baroness Elsa’s “Portrait of Duchamp", ca. 1920

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 4, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Walter De Maria

Cage II, 1965

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Robert Rauschenberg

Autobiography, 1968

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marius de Zayas

Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer, 1914

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marsden Hartley

Portrait, ca. 1914

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 3, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Edward Steichen

Mushton Shlushley, the Lyric Poet and Aestheticurean, ca. 1922

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Boîte-Series D (based on Boîte-en-Valise, 1935– 41), 1961

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Robert Rauschenberg

Self-Portrait [for The New Yorker Profile], 1964

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Yvonne Rainer, from Portraits of Eight New York Women, 1971

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Asphere, 1988-1990

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marius de Zayas

Agnes Meyer, 1912-1913

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Francis Picabia

Ici, C'est Ici Stieglitz Foit et Amour, 1915

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 2, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 6, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Robert Rauschenberg

This Is a Portrait of Iris Clert If I Say So, 1961

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Wrap: Portrait of Eva Hesse, 2001

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Carolee Schneemann, from Portraits of Eight New York Women, 1970

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Untitled (I Am an Invisible Man), 1991

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marius de Zayas

Alfred Stieglitz, 1914

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Marsden Hartley

One Portrait of One Woman, 1916

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K.N.R., No. 1, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Alfred Stieglitz

Portrait - K. N. R., No. 5, 1923

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Space Writing (Self-Portrait), 1935

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Self / Portrait, 2013

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Für K. v. K., 1990

"This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Presented by Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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