The Girl with Red Hair
Artist
Louise M. Boyer
(American, 1890 - 1976)
Daten.d.
MediumDrypoint
DimensionsImage: 12 × 11 7/8 inches (30.48 × 30.15 cm)
Sheet (irregular): 15 × 13 7/8 inches (38.1 × 35.23 cm)
Sheet (irregular): 15 × 13 7/8 inches (38.1 × 35.23 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen King Boyer in memory of her mother Louise M. Boyer
Object number77-58/1
Signedl.r.: "Louise Boyer"
On View
Not on viewCollections
Gallery LabelLouise Miller Boyer and her daughter, Helen King Boyer, were both printmakers. The two often worked together, but they did so in different artistic styles. While Louise created a realistic portrait of her model, Helen obscured her own identity in her abstract self-portrait. Her self-portrait reflects on her bedridden childhood, during which she reported feeling as though a plate-glass window separated her from the world.
Louise also sought to obscure her model's identity. When Helen gave the portrait to the Nelson-Atkins, she noted that her mother had erased the model's name, Adriana Bradley, and wrote in the final title, The Girl with Red Hair.
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