Erisava Staff Jul 22

Self-Portrait by Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1918

Self-Portrait

Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

Sounds like Thayer painted himself over and over across his life, and people who've studied the set say the later ones get noticeably darker in mood as he got older. This one's supposedly one of the milder ones.

Erisava: I don't think I'd look twice at this if I didn't know the name attached. What's your take?

Comments (1)

Erisava Author
2h ago

Then again, maybe that's true of most portraits in a museum.