Portraits Revealed
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Vince on Couch, 2020. Oil on canvas. SBMA, Gift of Lynn and Craig Jacobson, 2024.21. ©OtisQuaicoe, courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles.
Cynthia Talmadge, The Diplomat’s Wife’s Altitude Sickness on the Tarmac, San Salvador, 2024. Oil on canvas. SBMA, Museum purchase with funds provided by Luria/Budgor Family Foundation, 2025.8. Courtesy of the artist and 56 HENRY, New York.
Mary Grace, Self Portrait, c. 1760s. Oil on canvas. SBMA, Gift of Mrs. Lenore Adams, 1961.35.
Alfredo Ramos Martínez, La pintora de Uruapan (Uruapan Painter), ca. 1930. Oil on board. SBMA, Gift of the P.D. McMillan Land Company, 1963.24. ©The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project.
This exhibition features group and individual portraits from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s extensive collection. The essence of portraiture is that it depicts or alludes to a person or people. Over centuries, the artists in this gallery have told stories, fantasized, and revealed invisible emotions and beliefs. Portraits can be meditations on life and existence, opulent displays of status, or both. This exhibition presses on what counts as a portrait by including a few still-life paintings that use objects to suggest an unseen person or situation.
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