American Faces: A Cultural History of
Portraiture and Identity
February 17-April 30, 2017
Since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters in the colonies, Americans have created portraits to commemorate loved ones, glorify the famous, establish national myths, and honor shared heroes. Whether on canvas, in stone, in bronze, on film, or in binary code, we spend considerable time creating, contemplating, and collecting our likenesses. This exhibit, which brings together ninety portraits from more than twenty collections, explores and explains Americans’ 300-year fascination with images of themselves.
INFORMATION
Middlebury College Museum of Art
Mahaney Center for the Arts
72 Porter Field Road
Middlebury 05753
(802) 443-3168
Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 10AM-5PM
Saturday-Sunday, Noon-5PM
Closed Mondays and all College holidays
Image:
American Flag of Faces Exhibit, Ellis Island, New York
c. 1990-2011
Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.