Authors
This exhibition was curated by Cyndy Basil, ’25, under the direction of Gallery Director Sarah Kate Gillespie, and Kolbe Summer Scholar Isobel Debenham, ’25, under the direction of Professor Felicia Else, Art History.
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Document Type
Art Catalog
Description
Consisting of fifty-one prints on loan from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this exhibition examines how artists depicted themselves and their profession from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The show includes artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Salvator Rosa, William Hogarth, Claude Lorrian, and Francisco Goya, among others. Created during a period when the social status of artists was in flux, the prints represent both artists’ lives and work, and the roles that both artists and the arts held in society. Full of allegory and rich in satire, the works include self-portraits, representations of artists at work, and exhibition and academy spaces.
Publication Date
Fall 2024
Publisher
Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College
City
Gettysburg, PA
Keywords
fine arts, self-portraiture, art prints, Gettysburg College
Recommended Citation
Basil, Cyndy; Debenham, Isobel; Gillespie, Sarah Kate; and Else, Felicia M., "A Portrait of the Artist, 1525–1825: Prints from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation" (2024). Schmucker Art Catalogs. 44.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/44
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Comments
A Portrait of the Artist, 1525-1825 was on exhibition at the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College September 4 – December 14, 2024.