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Angus McBean
Self-Portrait Aloft with Umbrella1938

Not on view
Sepia-toned photograph of a grinning bearded man in a top hat seated in a floating washtub, holding an open umbrella aloft against a cloudy sky, with a white bird perched on the tub's rim

Angus McBean, Self-Portrait Aloft with Umbrella, 1938, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Angus McBean
England, 1904-1990
Title
Self-Portrait Aloft with Umbrella
Place Made
England
Date Made
1938
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (24.13 × 19.05 cm) Primary support: 10 × 7 3/4 in. (25.4 × 19.69 cm) Mat: 17 × 14 in. (43.18 × 35.56 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.89
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas. the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.
Copyright
© Angus McBean Estate