Self-Portrait with Five Muses
c. 1880
Henry Church
Henry Church (American, 1836–1908)
American Painting and Sculpture
Self-Portrait with Five Muses, c. 1880. Henry Church (American, 1836–1908). Oil on paper mounted to board; unframed: 73.3 x 59.7 cm (28 7/8 x 23 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund 2012.30 Church "spoke" at his funeral via an Edison phonograph recording he made for the occasion.
- Maker/Artist
- Church, Henry
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on paper mounted to board
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 73.3 x 59.7 cm (28 7/8 x 23 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Inscribed lower right: H. Church. Ptr
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 2012.30
- Credit Line
- Delia E. Holden Fund
- Exhibitions
- Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946, Artlens Exhibition 2017, Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, "They Taught Themselves: American Primitive Painters of the 20th Century," Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, February 9-March 7, 1942, "Masterpieces of American Primitive Painting," Museum of American Folk Art, New York, 1974-1975 [unconfirmed], "American Folk Painters of Three Centuries," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 26-May 13, 1980, "…seeds of the future," CompassRose Gallery, Chicago, February 14-March 25, 1989, "Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology," Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 10-May 17, 1998; High Museum of Art, July 14-September 20, 1998; Amon Carter Museum and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, October 31, 1998-January 24, 1999; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY, February 20-April 18, 1999; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 15-August 15, 1999; Museum of American Folk Art, New York, September 19-December 11, 1999
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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