Our next Tuesday Tea lecture (tomorrow at 2:30pm) will feature Barbara Sawhill, a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, who will be discussing the connections between learning a foreign language, identity and self-portraiture.
In her Communication and Conversation class, she asks her students - “Are you the same person when you speak in another language?” The class then visits the museum to discuss identity and likeness in self-portraits by artists in the collection in preparation for writing, in Spanish, their own verbal self-portraits.
One of the works they view, and one of the examples she will use at the tea, is this self-portrait by Alfred Leslie.
Alfred Leslie (American, b. 1927)
Self-Portrait, 1974
Lithograph
Friends of Art Fund, 1979.15
