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This exhibition includes more than 50 works from the College’s Art & Artifacts Collection, including actual mirrors and masks, as well as works on paper, photographs, paintings, and textiles across the centuries and cultures represented in the Collection. 

Images of exhibited objects (besides loans) can be accessed through TriArte, the online database that features art and artifacts from Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges. (The accession numbers are shown at the end of object descriptions.)

This page has paths:

  1. Exhibition Bryn Mawr College

Contents of this path:

  1. Miriam Schapiro, Frida and Me, 1990
  2. Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (1897–1983), Self-Portrait at 55 East Division Street, 1947
  3. Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1864), Arranging the Hair, from the series Fitting Accomplishments for Women, ca. 1843–1847
  4. Florence Vandamm (1883–1966), As You Like It: Character portrait of Katharine Hepburn as Rosalind/Ganymede, 1950
  5. Louis Muhlstock (1904–2001), Young Black Woman, ca. 1930s
  6. Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), The Fitting, 1890–91
  7. Marlene Dumas (born 1953), The Supermodel, 1995
  8. Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), Samuel Murray Sculpting Frank St. John, 1900
  9. Nancy Hagin (born 1940), Self-portrait, 1967
  10. Susanna Coffey (born 1949), Self-portrait, 1993
  11. Unknown maker, Mirror Case Top with Knight Offering Heart to Lady, 1858, after original of ca. 1375
  12. Fujiwara Shigeyoshi (19th century), Mirror, perhaps before 1859
  13. Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990), Käthe Kollwitz, 1930
  14. Isota Tucker Epes (1918–2009), Like Something Invented by Kafka, 20th century
  15. Unknown Maker (Pennsylvanian), Mahogany Dressing Case with Mirror, mid to late-19th century
  16. Unknown photographer, Geisha, Gion Street Kyoto, ca. 1865–1912
  17. Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953), Untitled (Mother and Daughter with Makeup), from Kitchen Table series, 2010
  18. Henri Simon Thomassin (active 1687–1741, after Philosopher with Mirror by Jusepe de Ribera (1600-1652), early 18th century
  19. Blocking the Light
  20. Alexander Dobkin (1908–1975), Confidence, 1959
  21. David Graham (born 1952), Bud Burkhart as William Penn, Three Arches, Levittown, PA, 1993
  22. Deborah Deichler (born 1948), Dorinne in Kimono, 1986
  23. Cuno Amiet (1868–1961), Floral Still Life, 1956
  24. Florence Vandamm (1883–1966) and George R. Thomas, also known as Tommy Vandamm (died 1944), Days Without End: Earle Larimore as John and Stanley Ridges (masked) as Loving, 1934
  25. Unknown maker (Roman), Double cosmetics tube, ca. 4th century CE
  26. Iona Fromboluti (born 1953), Flowers and Head, 1991
  27. Simon Fokke (1727–1784), Illustration for unidentified publication, 18th century
  28. Margaretta Gilboy (born 1943), I’m Getting Out of Lansdale, 1986
  29. Florence Vandamm (1883–1966) and George R. Thomas, also known as Tommy Vandamm (died 1944), Jane Eyre: Katharine Hepburn as Jane Eyre, looking in hand mirror, 1936–37
  30. Unknown maker (West African), Kente Cloth
  31. Unknown manufacture (Japanese), Kimono, ca. 1940s
  32. Constance Maravell (born 1944, Class of 1965), Lovely Lady, 1977
  33. Unknown maker (Chinese), Mirror, 206 BCE–200CE
  34. Unknown maker (Etruscan), Mirror with Engraved Decoration of Figures, probably late 3rd century BCE–early 2nd century BCE
  35. Kikukawa Eizan (1787–1867), Mother Carrying her Baby Son on her Back by a Cistern, late 18th Century–early 19th Century
  36. Unknown maker (Sierra Leonean), Sande society helmet mask, mid-20th century
  37. Sigmund Abeles (born 1934), NL/SA, Couple, Fits like a Glove, 1999
  38. Unknown artist (Japanese), Noh Mask of a Man, probably 20th century
  39. Unknown artist (Japanese), Noh Mask of a Woman, probably 20th century
  40. Zoe Strauss (born 1970), Philadelphia, PA (Mummers Kissing), 2009
  41. Arthur W. Simpson (1857-1922), Self-portrait, mid-19th century–early 20th century
  42. Rachel Bliss (born 1962), Self-portrait, 1991
  43. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69), Self-portrait Drawing at a Window, 1648
  44. Jessica Todd Harper (born 1975, Class of 1997), Sophia and Barbara, 2012
  45. Andrea Andreani (ca. 1558–1629) or possibly Niccolò Vicentinò (born ca. 1510), after a lost drawing by Perino del Vaga or Parmigianino, The Christian Virtues: Prudence, late 16th century
  46. Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), The Coiffure, 1890–1891
  47. Margo Humphrey (born 1942), The History of Her Life Written Across Her Face, 1991
  48. John Sloan (1871–1951), The Show Case, 1905
  49. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–98), The Toilette of Salome II, after a drawing of 1894
  50. Unknown photographer, Twiggy Putting on Eyelashes, 1966
  51. Romare Howard Bearden (1911–88), Carolina Memory (Tidings), 1973
  52. Fritz Janschka (1919–2016), Wilde, 1985
  53. Emma Amos (born 1938), Giza, Emma, and Larry, 1993
  54. Josephine Paul, Interior Scene with Dressmaker’s Dummy, mid- to late 20th century
  55. Unknown maker, Mirror
  56. Unknown Yoruba maker, Ile Ori, mid-20th century
  57. Pele deLappe (1916–2007), Self-portrait (On Being Female), 1991
  58. Possibly Susan Macdowell Eakins (1851–1938), Thomas Eakins in his Chestnut Street Studio, 1890–92
  59. Unknown Mende, Ndoli Jowei (Sande Society Helmet Mask), mid 20th century