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Portraits Created For Whitney Biennial 2010

Storm Tharp, Jodie Jill, 2009. Ink, gouache, and colored pencil on paper, 58 1/2 × 42 1/4 in. (148.6 × 107.3 cm). Collection of the artist; courtesy PDX Contemporary Art, Portland
“Dolores”, 2009
Ink, gouache, colored pencil and gold leaf on paper. 42 X 68 inches
“Miss Cloud”, 2009
Ink, gouache and colored pencil on paper. 42 X 58 inches
“Pigeon (After Shunsen)”, 2009
Ink, gouache, graphite and colored pencil on paper. 42 X 58 inches
“Strangers Comin”, 2009
Ink, gouache and colored pencil on paper. 42 X 58 inches

Jodie Jill, Dolores, Miss Cloud, Pigeon (After Shunsen), Strangers Comin – 2009

Points of Reference

Gloria Swanson
Natori Shunsen
"The Actor Ichikawa Ennosuke II as Kakudayu" Published 1927
"Cream Puff", 2008
Ink, gouache, colored pencil on paper,
42 X 58 inches
"Oh What A Paradise It Seems" - 1982
drawing tool
Marian Anderson
Sissy Spacek & Shelley Duvall
“3 Women” – Robert Altman
John Gregory Dunne (left)
Truman Capote by Richard Avedon (right)
Mia Farrow
“Rosemary’s Baby” – Roman Polanski
Detail
"Rope (After Schjerfbeck)", 2008
Ink gouache, charcoal and graphite on paper, 86 X 58 inches
Tony Duquette, from "Personal Culture" 1971
Detail
"Choir", 2009
Ink, gouache and fabric dye on paper.
91 X 30 inches

Left to right : Gloria Swanson, Natori Shunsen, ST Cream Puff, 2008, Oh What A Paradise It Seems, Drawing tools, Marian Anderson, 3 Women, Guilt & Innocence, Rosemary’s Baby, ST Detail, 2008, Tony Duquette, ST Detail, 2009

“She was very tall, wore either slacks with sandals or billowing skirts with ballet slippers, drank any strong liquor in any amount, had had two miscarriages, wrote stories about animals, painted, as the reader knows, lakescapes, was already nursing the cancer that was to kill her at thirty three, and was hopelessly unattractive to me. Judge then of my alarm when a few second before I left (she and I stood in the hallway) Jean, with her always trembling fingers, took me by the temples, and with tears in her bright blue eyes, attempted unsuccessfully to glue herself to my lips.”

- Vladamir Nabokov