Self-Portrait
Artist
Emmy Lou Packard
(1914 El Centro, California - 1998 San Francisco, California)
Date1941
Mediumoil on canvas board
Dimensions20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the Albuquerque Museum Foundation, bequest of Lucia v B. Batten
Object numberPC2018.38.1
DescriptionA painting with a custom metal frame depicting a blonde woman with a white shirt in a dark jungle landscape. She stands next to a leopard, crocodile, fern, and yellow flower. The frame is covered in a layer of metal leaf cut-outs. Emmy Lou Packard was friends with Diego Rivera and Frida Khalo.On View
Not on viewca. 1944
December 8, 1912
August 9, 1961