This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today Hoods Ashley Bryan

Ashley Bryan

scheduled to be on view at the Portland Museum of Art

in keeping with its utilitarian objective of promoting the general welfare

the neglected brother of famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Bowdoin Class of 1825]

This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today Hoods Ashley BryanAnne Collins Goodyear, Jonathan Frederick Walz, and Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo, with a contribution by Dorinda Evans The sumptuously illustrated catalogue explores portraiture as a site of artistic experimentation, in works that shift the genre from one based on mimesis to one stressing symbolic associations between artists and subjects. Featuring over 100 color illustrations this publication probes the way we think about and picture the self and