Portrait #263

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Potter, Bertha Herbert (self-portrait)
  • Artist:Potter, Bertha Herbert 1895-1944
  • Date Created:ca. 1940
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:22.5 x 18
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/26/2003
  • Condition:Fair
  • Description:Bust-length of a woman with wavy short blond hair in a blue open collar dress and a 3-strand red and white necklace. Her lips are bright red and her eyes blue. A red and blue thin ribbon (?) is in her hair. The background suggests a dramatic halo of blues and reds. Multiple point of reflection in her left eye suggest tears.
  • History:This work may have been painted near the time of the artist's death at age 49.