Object number2012.24

5C (Self-portrait)

Date1979

Artist Chuck Close (American, 1940 - 2021)

CultureAmerican

Medium5 Polaroid Polacolor prints mounted on board

DimensionsImage: 59 1/4 × 55 1/4 in. (150.5 × 140.3 cm)
Framed: 61 1/4 × 57 1/4 × 3 in. (155.6 × 145.4 × 7.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Photography Challenge Grant

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

BibliographyLombino, Mary-Kay. Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2019, p. 109

Vassar Exhibitions

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation

Exhibition HistoryThe Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 8 - June 30, 2013; The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, December 19, 2013 - March 23, 2014; Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email loebcollections@vassar.edu