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Graduate Self-Portraits

Ongoing

9 May - 1 September

Details

Start:
9 May
End:
1 September

Location

Main-floor

Accessibility

https://owensartgallery.com/visit/accessibility/

Graduate Self-Portraits

About this exhibition

Each year, in celebration of Spring Convocation and Alumni Reunion Weekend, the Owens Art Gallery displays self-portraits from the Graduate Self-Portrait Collection.

From the late 1940s until the mid-1960s, Mount Allison University students in Fine Arts were required to paint a self-portrait in their fourth year, which they then submitted as their “Diploma Piece” before receiving the Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. The portraits were to be life-sized, painted in oil on canvas or board, and measure 40 x 30 inches. An important archive of the Fine Arts Department, this collection consists of approximately fifty paintings that are now housed at the Owens Art Gallery.

This year, we are presenting selections from the Classes of 1949, 1954, and 1964.

Image Gallery

Jane Elford’s (’64) graduate self-portrait, and her graduate exhibition at the Owens Art Gallery in 1964. Courtesy of Mount Allison University Archives. Picture Collection. 2007.07/2592

Top Images: Left to Right: Ted Pulford (’49), Ruth Morton (’49), Vera Davis (’49)