Exploring Modern Portraiture

Images for educators from The Alexandria Museum of Art Spring 2013 Exhibitions

Ray Turner: Population and An Adventure in the Arts: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Guild Hall

Ray Turner, Ruby Woods Smith, Rapides Parish School Board Director of Child Welfare, 2013, oil painting on glass, 12" x 12"

Ray Turner, Kasey Morgan, Pineville High School Senior, 2013, oil painting on glass, 12”x12”

Ray Turner, Kasey Morgan, Pineville High School Senior, 2013, oil painting on glass, 12”x12”

Photograph of Kasey Morgan taken at the opening of Population in March 2013

The De Koonings

Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999), Willem and Elaine de Kooning, 1950, gelatin silver print, 10" x 10," Guild Hall Museum, Gift of Marjorie Luyckx in memory of Elaine De Kooning 92.26.10

Hans Namuth (1915-1990), Elaine and Willem de Kooning, 1953, gelatin silver print, selenium toned, 11" x 10,” Guild Hall Museum, Gift of the artist 90.1.1

Portraits and the Figure in Abstract Expressionism: Why did they paint that

way?

Hedda Sterne (1916- )Portrait of Harold Rosenberg, 1964Oil and charcoal on canvas, 64 ½" x 45 ½ "Gift of the artist in memory of Harold Rosenberg78.16

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)Untitled (Head of a Woman), c. 1965Charcoal on paper, 20 ½ x 15"Gift of the Artist66.10

Pop Art: Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, 1967, screenprint, 36" x 35," Guild Hall Museum, bequest of Tito Spiga Bequest 91.8.6 © 2013 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Marilyn Monroe™; Rights of Publicity and Persona Rights: The Estate of Marilyn Monroe, LLC

The Color Wheel