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A self-portrait of the artist, Chuck Close, using a hand colored traditional Japanese woodcut t…
Self-Portrait
A self-portrait of the artist, Chuck Close, using a hand colored traditional Japanese woodcut t…
A self-portrait of the artist, Chuck Close, using a hand colored traditional Japanese woodcut technique. The woodcut is composed of curls of nineteen different colors creating the face.
Self-Portrait, Chuck Close, 2004, 19-color handprinted ukiyo-e woodcut, Tosahanga paper, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, © Chuck Close, courtesy Pace Prints.

Self-Portrait

Artist (American, 1940 - 2021)
Printer (Japanese, born 1955)
Date2004
Medium19-color handprinted ukiyo-e woodcut, Tosahanga paper
DimensionsImage: 28 1/2 × 22 3/4 inches (72.4 × 57.8 cm)
Credit LineKirk Varnedoe Collection, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, Gift of Chuck and Leslie Close in memory of Kirk Varnedoe.
Object number2006.10.1
On View
Not on view
Copyright© Chuck Close, courtesy Pace Prints. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextChuck Close’s Self-Portrait is one of a collection of works donated to the Telfair by twenty-two artists in honor the late scholar and MOMA curator, Kirk Varnedoe, who was a native of Savannah. The Varnedoe Collection, now on view in the Levitt and Varnedoe galleries in the Jepson Center, features work by Close as well as other contemporary artists championed by Varnedoe, including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Richard Avedon.
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