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Currently not on view
Self-Portrait in front of an Easel,
ca. 1908–09
When I ask a group of young children if they identify as artists, hands shoot up into the air with gusto. Adults, however, are often timid and unsure about their own creative identity. Even those who spend time exploring a creative craft will bashfully confess, “I am not artistic.” Münter’s eye is typically focused on the land around her, but here she is not shy about making herself the main attraction of the scene. By portraying herself as a painter, she is proudly declaring her artistic identity. Her style is soft, muted, floral, gossamer, even bare in some parts, but her statement is bold. She looks herself in the eyes as if to say: “I am a painter. I am an artist. I am my art, and my art is me.”
Julie Rosenthale, Owner/Teacher, Art Sparks, Hopewell, New Jersey
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ca. 1908–09
- Gabriele Münter: first American exhibition, with seven additional major paintings by Kandinsky, (Los Angeles: Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, 1960?).
- Gabriele Münter, 1877-1962 : memorial exhibition, (Los Angeles: Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, 1963)., illus.
- Creators and masters of German expressionist art: exhibition August 30 to September 26, (Los Angeles, CA: Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, 1968)., color illus.
- Anne Mochon, Gabriele Münter: between Munich and Murnau, (Cambridge, MA: Published for the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, 1980)., no. 32; p. 36 (illus.)
- Gisela Kleine, Gabriele Münter und Wassily Kandinsky: Biographie eines Paares, (Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1990)., p. 337 (illus.); p. 336-337
- Annegret Hoberg and Helmut Friedel, Gabriele Münter, 1877-1962: retrospektive, (München: Lenbachhaus; Prestel, 1992)., cat. no. 56 (color illus.); p. 263
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1992," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 52, no. 1 (1993): p. 36-83., p. 82
- Barbara U. Schmidt, "Gabriele Münter (k)eine Künstlerin aus der Gruppe "Blauer Reiter"", Kritische berichte 22, no. 2 (1994): p. 26-39., p. 35, fig. 4; p. 34-36
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Reinhold Heller, Gabriele Münter: the years of expressionism, 1903-1920, (Munich; New York: Prestel, 1997).
, no. 36, p. 120 (color illus.) - Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 189 (illus.)
- Michael Juul Holm, et. al., Self-portrait, (Humlebæk, Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2012).
