Self Portrait

1964

Hughie Lee-Smith American, 1915 - 1999

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About the Artwork

Title Self Portrait

Artwork Date 1964

Artist Hughie Lee-Smith

Life Dates 1915 - 1999

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Framed: 17 3/16 inches × 13 1/8 inches × 2 inches (43.7 × 33.4 × 5.1 cm) Unframed: 16 1/16 × 11 15/16 × 13/16 inches (40.8 × 30.3 × 2.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department African American Art

Credit Gift of Charles Feinberg

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F76.109

Markings

Signed Signed, lower left: Lee-Smith

Inscriptions Signed and dated in black, lower left: Lee-Smith | '64

Provenance

1976-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Greene, Carroll. "Hughie Lee-Smith: Breakthrough." American Visions 5.4 (1999): pp. 26-31.

Simon, Virginia Spottswood."Qualities of Loneliness and Light." International Review of African American Art 16 (1999): pp. 2-18.

Portraits of Who We Are. Exh. cat., The David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park. College Park, 2018, p. 83.

McCarthy, Jeremiah William, and Diana Thompson, ed. For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts and National Academy of Design. New Haven and London, 2019, pp. 168-169 (ill.).

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