Self-portrait Without Glasses, Jim Dine

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Self-portrait Without Glasses, Jim Dine
Self-portrait Without Glasses, Jim Dine
Jim Dine
Self-portrait Without Glasses
1978
Jim Dine, artist
born 1935
Self-portrait Without Glasses, 1978
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: etching; wove paper
Credit line: Museum purchase: National Endowment for the Arts
Accession number: 1978.0088
Not on display
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Archive Label 2003:
Portraits function not only to capture physical likeness but to embody less tangible personal traits as well. Dine is a prolific printmaker who has repeatedly attempted to portray his own character. Many of his self-portraits seem to characterize Dine as an artist, for they are prints of a printmaker by a printmaker. The richly printed surface of Harvard Self-portrait Without Glasses emphasizes Dine’s proficiency as an etcher.