Self-Portrait
Chuck Close, American, 1940 - 2021
July 8, 1992
Spit-bite aquatint and softground etching on wove paper
19/70
Plate: 6 3/4 × 5 in. (17.2 × 12.7 cm)
Sheet: 19 9/16 × 15 9/16 in. (49.7 × 39.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund and the Anonymous Fund #144
© Chuck Close
PR.993.27.2
Printer
Joe Wilfer, The Spring Street Workshop, New York
Publisher
Pace Editions, Inc., New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right: C. Close. 1992; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 19/70
Course History
SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, II, III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2013
ANTH 7, The Values of Medicine, Sienna Craig, Winter 2013
SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Spring 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014
SART 15, Drawing I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2019
SART 15, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2019
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2020
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2021
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2021
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2021
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2021
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2021
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2021
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka - OPEN HOURS, Fall 2021
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka - OPEN HOURS, Fall 2021
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka - OPEN HOURS, Fall 2021
SART 27/28/74, Printmaking I/II/III, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2022
SART 15.03, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2022
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2022
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2022
Studio Art 27.01/28.01/74.01, Printmaking I/II/III, Jen Caine, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Contemporary Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, II. Still Life, Landscape, and the Figure, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 3-April 7, 1996, no. 38.
Artist as Object/Subject, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 18, 1999-March 12, 2000.
Elevator Vestibule, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April-August 2011.
Late and Post-Modernism: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 55, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 5-June 18, 1995.
Reality and its Alternatives, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4-March 13, 2005.
Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-April 12, 1998.
The Expanding Grid, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-August 27, 2012.
Visual Proof: The Experience of Mathematics in Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 11-December 12, 1999.
Publication History
Timothy Rub, A Decade of Collecting: 1985-1995 / Contemporary Prints Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, p. 3, ill. p. 3, fig. 6, listed p. 6, no. 38..
Dan Rockmore, "The Whole Is the Sum of Its Parts." In D.I. Wallace, Editor, Visual Proof: The Experience of Mathematics in Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1999, pp.58-60, ill. p. 58, listed p. 63, Cat. no. 19.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.184, no.190.
Provenance
Pace Editions Inc, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1993.
Catalogue Raisonne
Pace Cat. #: 172-43
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