Artist's Magazine - USA (2020-05)

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THE ARTIST AT WORK

BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART
AUSTIN, TEXAS
BLANTONMUSEUM.ORG
THROUGHJUNE28, 2020

In “The Artist at Work,” exhibition

curator Mairead Carney Horton,

the prints and drawing assistant at

Blanton Museum of Art, showcases

how artists in the past 500 years have

used their own artwork to examine

their identities as artists—often in

the form of a self-portrait.

The featured pieces are from the

museum’s permanent collection and

demonstrate the ways in which art-

ists have “performed their identities,

built their reputations and interacted

with the marketplace,” according to

a museum press release.

ABOVE

Portrait of Francis Seymour Haden, No. II

(While Etching)

by Francis Seymour Haden

1862; etching and drypoint, 8¾ x11½

BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN,

JACK S. BLANTON CURATORIAL ENDOWMENT FUND, 2007

BELOW

The Life Class

George Bellows

1917; lithograph, 18⅞ x25^1 ³⁄₁^6

BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART, THE UNIVERSITY

OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN,

GIFT OF THE STILLWATER FOUNDATION, 1992