Examples of portraits by artists who were born after 1850:

Listed chronologically by artist's birth year

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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890), Portrait of Joseph Roulin, 1888, reed quill pens and brown ink and black chalk, 12 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches (32 x 24.4 cm), J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA. See Post-Impressionism, and other van Gogh portraits and self-portraits.

Vincent van Gogh, Woman Rocking a Cradle (La berceuse), January 1889 (Arles), oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 29 inches (93 x 74 cm), Philadelphia Museum of Art, F 505.

John Singer Sargent (American, born Italy, 1856-1925), Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883-1884, oil on canvas, 82 1/8 x 43 1/4 inches (208.6 x 109.9 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. See Sargent's preparatory Study of Mme Gautreau, c. 1884, oil on canvas, 206.4 x 107.9 cm, Tate Gallery, London. See study.

John Singer Sargent, Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, 1889, oil on canvas, 221.0 x 114.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London. See theater.

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Mrs. Edward L. Davis and Her Son, Livingston Davis, 1890, oil on canvas, 86 1/8 x 48 1/4 inches (218.7 x 122.5 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

John Singer Sargent, Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman), 1893, oil on canvas, 49 3/8 x 40 1/2 inches (25.4 x 102.9 cm), National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.

Walter Richard Sickert (English, 1860-1942), Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98), 1894, oil on canvas, 76.2 x 31.1 cm, Tate Gallery, London. Sickert's portrait of Beardsley was reproduced in the reknowned journal of fin de siècle art and literature, The Yellow Book, while Beardsley was its art editor. Beardsley was by then a highly celebrated artist. See aestheticism.

Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918), Serena Lederer (died 1943), 1899, oil on canvas, 75 1/8 x 33 5/8 inches (190.8 x 85.4 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. See Art Nouveau, Austrian art, emphasis, and secession.

Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Hermine Gallia, 1904, oil on canvas, 170.5 x 96.5 cm, Tate Gallery, London.

Gustav Klimt, Mäda Primavesi (born l903), 1912, oil on canvas, 59 x 43 1/2 inches (149.9 x 110.5 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.

Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944), Count Harry Kessler, 1906, oil on canvas, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Harry Kessler was a German patron of avant-garde art and design who died in 1937. See Expressionism.

Suzanne Valadon (French, 1867-1938), Portrait of Mme Zamaron, 1922, oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 25 7/8 inches (81.5 x 65.6 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY. See feminism, feminist art, and French art.

Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868-1952), Chief Joseph (American, c. 1840-1904), 1903, photogravure, 39.7cm x 28.1 cm (15 5/8 x 11 1/16 inches), National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.

Edward Sheriff Curtis, Geronimo (1829-1909), 1907, photogravure, 39.3cm x 26.9 cm (15 1/2 x 10 9/16 inches),

Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954), Green Stripe (Madame Matisse), 1905, oil and tempera on canvas, 15 7/8 x 12 7/8 inches (40.5 x 32.5 cm), Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. See Fauvism.

Henri Matisse, The Red Madras Headress (Mme Matisse: Madras Rouge), summer 1907, oil on canvas, 39 1/8 x 31 3/4 inches (99.4 x 80.5 cm), Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA.

Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871-1944), Portrait of Our Nurse, Margaret Burgess, 1929, oil on canvas, 38 x 26 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Katherine Dreier (American, 1877-1952), Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, 1918, oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, NY. See abstract and Dada.

Marsden Hartley (American, 1877-1943), Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, oil on canvas, 68 1/4 x 41 3/8 inches (173.4 x 105.1 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. This painting's mystical overtones and freely brushed surface derive from German Expressionism.

Augustus John (English, 1878-1961), W.B. Yeats, 1907, pencil on paper, 35.3 x 25.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London. The subject is a famous Irish poet. See English art.

Augustus John, Colonel T.E. Lawrence, 1919, oil on canvas, 80.0 x 59.7 cm, Tate Gallery, London. The subject became famously known as "Lawrence of Arabia."

Sylvia Gosse (English, 1881-1968), Walter Richard Sickert, 1923-5, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 30.5 cm, Tate Gallery, London.

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1972), Portrait of Benet Soler, 1903, oil on canvas, 39 x 27 1/2 inches (100 x 70 cm), Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, 1906, oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 32 inches (100 x 81.3 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Picasso's reduction of the figure to simple masses and the face to a mask with heavy lidded eyes reflects his recent encounter with African, Roman, and Iberian sculpture and foreshadows his adoption of Cubism. He painted the head, which differs in style from the body and hands, without the model, testimony to the fact that it was his personal vision, rather than empirical reality, that guided him in his work. When someone commented that Stein did not look like her portrait, Picasso replied, "She will."

Charles Demuth (American, 1883-1935), The Figure 5 in Gold, 1928, oil on cardboard, 35 1/2 x 30 inches (90.2 x 76.2 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. In the 1920's Demuth produced a series of poster-portraits honoring his contemporaries, inspired by Gertrude Stein's word-portraits. The Figure 5 in Gold is the most accomplished of the group. It was dedicated to the artist's friend William Carlos Williams, the American poet whose "The Great Figure" inspired the painting's title and imagery. Demuth's painting, however, is not a representational illustration of the poem but rather an abstract impression of the No. 5 fire engine clanging through the lamp-lit streets of the darkened, rainy city. Scattered words and initials refer to the artist and the poet. See emphasis and text.

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976), Dr. Rosa Schapire, 1919, oil on canvas, 100.6 x 87.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London. See Expressionism and German art.

Egon Schiele (German, 1890-1918), Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh, 1918, oil on canvas, 55 1/8 x 43 7/16 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. See Expressionism and German art.

Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969), The Journalist Sylvia Von Harden, 1926, oil and tempera on wood, 121 x 89 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris. See Expressionism and German art.

Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978), Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994), thirty-seventh president of the US (1969-1974), 1968, oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.

Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991), Eva le Gallienne, c. 1927, vintage silver print, 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, National Museum of Women in Art, Washington, DC.

Alice Neel (American, 1900-1984), T.B., Harlem, 1940, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches, National Museum of Women in Art, Washington, DC.

Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901-1966), Jean Genet, 1954-1955, oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris. See Swiss art.

Arshile Gorky (American, born Armenia, 1904-1948), The Artist and His Mother, c. 1926-36, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 inches (152.4 x 127 cm), Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. See Abstract Expressionism.

Francis Bacon (English, 1909-1992)

Elaine de Kooning (American, 1918- 1989), Fairfield Porter, 1954, oil on canvas, 48 x 31 7/8 inches, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO.

Lucian Freud (English, 1922-), Francis Bacon, 1952, oil on metal, 17.8 x 12.7 cm, Tate Gallery, London.

Irving Penn (American, contemporary), Truman Capote, New York, 1965 (print 1986), platinum palladium print, Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

Alex Katz (American, 1927-)

Andy Warhol (American, 1928?1930?-1987 ), Mao, 1973, silkscreen, acrylic on canvas, 448,3 x 346,1 cm, Nationalgalerie, Berlin. See Pop Art.

Gerhard Richter (German, 1932-), Elizabeth I, 1966, lithograph on paper, image: 70.0 x 59.5 cm, Tate Gallery, London.

Chuck Close (American, 1940-), Frank, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 108 x 84 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Also see grisaille and Photo-Realism.

Chuck Close, Georgia, 1984, handmade paper, 56 x 45 inches (142.24 x 114.30 cm), Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH.

Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1988, ceramic, 42 x 70 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches, Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA. See Neo-Geo.

Philip Grausman (American, contemporary), Leucantha, 1993, cast aluminum, 1 / 3, 108 x 118 x 118 inches, Grounds For Sculpture, NJ.

Examples of portraits by artists who were born before those represented above:

• Before 1700
• Between 1701 and 1800
• Between 1801 and 1850
• After 1850

• "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Said by the character Basil Hallward, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapter 1 (1891).
  
  
• "A portrait is a painting with something a little wrong with the mouth."
  John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), American painter of many portraits.
  
  
• "The point on which we differ is one which a long experience of portrait painting has made me perfectly familiar-I have very often been reproached with giving a hard expression to ladies' portraits, especially when I have retained some look of intelligence in a face."
  Quote of John Singer Sargent, undated letter.
  
  
• "When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait."
  Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist. Intransigeant (Paris, June 15, 1932).
  
  
• "What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."
  Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist. Arts de France, no. 6 (Paris, 1946). Quoted in: Picasso on Art (edited by Dore Ashton, 1972).
  
  
• "A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter . . . the painter has within himself the landscapes he wishes to produce. To depict a figure one must not paint that figure; one must paint its atmosphere."
  Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), Italian Futurist painter and sculptor. Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting, April 11, 1910.
  
  

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