Double+Portrait+of+the+Artist+in+Time

Date: 1935
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1978/1978.51_1a.jpg?itok=bLrzsHRr width="259" height="308" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/double-portrait-of-the-artist-in-time-15255"]] || Title: **Double Portrait of the Artist in Time**

Artist: **Helen Lundeberg** Born: Chicago, Illinois 1908 Died: Los Angeles, California 1999

Medium: oil on fiberboard Dimensions: 47 3/4 x 40 in. (121.3 x 101.6 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase

Accession: 1978.51 || In //Double Portrait//, Helen Lundeberg incorporated different figures and objects to symbolize the stages of her life. The time on the clock represents the child’s age of two and a quarter, and the blank paper suggests her unknown future. She holds a flower bud to emphasize her undeveloped state, whereas the adult figure holds a blooming flower to show that she has experienced sex and love. Lundeberg connected the young girl to the grown woman with a shadow to suggest that the two parts of her life are “psychologically bridged.” The subdued tones and flat colors create a mysterious world where the shadow hovers like a ghost over the shoulders of both figures.
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