Olivia Spencer Bower
England / Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1905, d.1982
Self-portrait
- Watercolour
- Purchased with assistance from the Friends of Robert McDougall Art Gallery, 1999
- 243 x 239mm
- 99/19
Tags: artists (visual artists), gaze (psychoanalytical concept), painters (artists), painting (image making), people (agents), portraits, self-portraits, women (female humans)
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Here's looking at you, kid
Within the Gallery's collection, there are plenty of eyes willing to meet yours, but while some seem content to merely receive our gaze, others look back with a certain character and intensity.