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| Lys Hansen Other Directions 2007 oil and pastel on paper University of Stirling, Scotland |
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| Susan Wilson Self Portrait with Hands 1995-96 oil on canvas Usher Gallery, Lincoln |
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| Michelle Anderson Self Portrait 1995 oil on board Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland |
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| Chantal Joffe Untitled 1994 oil on canvas Royal College of Art, London |
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| Shani Rhys James The Mirror 1994 oil on linen Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales |
from Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Meanwhile, we paint our self-
portraits on everything
imaginable, then hold
them up like mirrors.
Our mercurial brushes
grow longer, our skills
more acute. Dust clouds
the vision, tinder
to the eye. So we burn
trees to save the forests, burn
air to fly afar. We do, we say.
We can. The time
is close at hand. Time was
(said a man)
you could tell the weather from the moon.
That was before another
broke the quicksilver distance
and walked all over it.
Now you can't tell a thing.
– Alice B. Fogel (1993)
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| Dorothy Mead Self Portrait 1960 oil on canvas Ruth Borchard Collection, London |
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| Anne Redpath Self Portrait 1943 oil on board Ruth Borchard Collection, London |
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| Isabel Babianska Reflections (Self Portrait) 1939 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland |
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| Anna Zinkeisen The Dark Lady 1938 oil on canvas Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Marie Louise von Motesiczky Model with Parasol ca. 1932 oil on canvas New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester |
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| Ruth Simpson Maroon and Gold ca. 1930 oil on canvas Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance, Cornwall |
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| Doris Zinkeisen Self Portrait ca. 1929 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Laura Knight Portrait of Ethel Bartlett (concert pianist) ca. 1927 oil on canvas Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Merseyside |
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| Dod Procter Self Portrait ca. 1925 oil on canvas Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance, Cornwall |
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| Dorothy Johnstone Portrait of Anne Finlay 1920 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland |