Self-Portrait
Dox Thrash
This is a bust-length self-portrait. The sitter is dressed in a blue, open-collar shirt, with red suspenders. He faces three-quarters to the right, and his gaze is directed away from the viewer.
Thrash's palette of blues and purples echoes the colors used by Tanner, America's most accomplished and renowned African-American artist of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When the Pyramid Club commenced its series of annual art exhibitions in 1941, Tanner was the featured artist. Thrash also participated in that exhibition and would have had ample opportunity to study Tanner's paintings.
Artist
Date of Birth
(1893-1965)
Date
ca. 1938
Medium
Oil on masonite panel
Dimensions
18 x 15 3/4 in. (45.72 x 40.005 cm.)
Accession #
2008.24
Credit Line
Paris Haldeman Fund
Copyright
© artist or artist's estate
Category
Subject
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