Picture This

Telling Our Tales with Self-Portraits

Goal
To increase awareness of an artist's ability to communicate ideas about the subject of a portrait not only with content but with design choices. Students will experience this concept by viewing and discussing portraits, and creating a self-portrait.

Focus Book
Rohmer, Harriet, ed. Just Like Me: Stories and Self-Portraits by Fourteen Artists. San Francisco, Calif.: Children's Book Press, 1997.

Focus Art Work
The Artist in His Studio, by Frank Wright

Art Production
A self-portrait emphasizing contour lines and self-expressive content and design.

Downloads
Lesson Plan (PDF)
The Artist in His Studio, by Frank Wright

Portraits at the Morris Museum of Art

Minnie Evans Untitled—Portrait with Stars	Carrie Stubbs Charleston Bride
Joseph Christian Leyendecker Portrait of Rex Beach	William Joseph Petrie Self-Portrait as Cowboy