%C2%A9 Estate Emerson Burkhart
Watercolor on paperexpand_more
Gift of Eric Brecher in honor of Robert Cozzolino, Alexandra Fano, and Michael J. Brecherexpand_more 2016.113.2
Ohio-based painter Emerson Burkhart was a prolific self-portraitist, painting at least three dozen works in which he casts himself in a variety of roles and captures many moods. In this study for an oil painting he holds up a stencil with a cut-out the exact shape of the finished painting—not a square or rectangle but an irregular half circle. Burkhart thought deeply about the nature of representation and reality and may be playing with the notion that every image is a slice of the real world.
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