Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- Self-Portrait shows the artist as a young woman living in New York. Priscilla Roberts painted with photographic precision, copying her subjects “exactly and completely” and taking many months to complete one image (2001, The Wilton Bulletin, Ask Art Biography). She was an eccentric lady who lived much of her later life as a recluse, and the large straw hat, stuffed birds, and stepladders in this painting reflect her quirky, obsessive character.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Priscilla Roberts, born Glen Ridge, NJ 1916-died Georgetown, CT 2001
- Sitter
- Priscilla Roberts
- Priscilla Roberts
- Date
- 1946
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum Purchase
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 29 7/8 x 14 1/8 in. (75.8 x 35.9 cm)
- Type
- Painting
