Self-Portrait (collage made from discarded cut-up proofs), Chuck Close, 2013
Chuck Close, portraitChuck CloseAmerican, 1940–2021

Self-Portrait (collage made from discarded cut-up proofs)

2013 · Drawing

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Not on view at present

Where is “Self-Portrait (collage made from discarded cut-up proofs)” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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In this state since
Source
The museum

Details

Accession number
2014.5.1

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

In the life of Chuck Close

The whole life
  1. 2003–2016

    The touring exhibition “Process and Collaboration”

    Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, organized by the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston and curated by Terrie Sultan, tours the world until 2016, with stops including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Miami Art Museum, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, White Cube in London and the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, which Close visits in December 2014.

  2. 2011

    Divorce from Leslie Rose

    Close had two daughters with Leslie Rose; they divorced in 2011.

  3. 2013

    Married: Sienna Shields

  4. 2013

    Mentors schoolchildren in the Turnaround Arts programme

    He is one of eight artists who volunteer in 2013 for President Obama’s Turnaround Arts initiative, which aims to improve low-performing schools by increasing student engagement through the arts: he mentors 34 sixth- to eighth-graders at Roosevelt School in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and on 7 November Mayor Bill Finch honours him with a key to the city.

  5. after 2013

    Divorce from Sienna Shields

    His marriage to the artist Sienna Shields, made in 2013, later ended: they divorced.

  6. 2015

    Diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia

    In 2015 Close is diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.

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