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Three Faces of Man
Three Faces of Man
Three Faces of Man

Three Faces of Man


Artist (American b. 1939)
Portfolio/SeriesPowerPlay
Date1985
MediumSprayed acrylic and oil on linen
DimensionsOverall: 54 x 108 in. (137.2 x 274.3 cm)
Other (Each canvas): 54 x 36 in., (137.2 x 91.4 cm,)
Credit LineGift of Ruth Lambert and Henry S. Harrison
Object number2013.71
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
On view
Century
  • Twentieth
Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: Global Contemporary Galleries (202), Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA, June 1, 2024 - present; Judy Chicago: Herstory, New Museum, New York, October 12, 2023-March 3, 2024; Judy Chicago: Herstory, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, October 12, 2023 - January 14, 2024; Surveying Judy Chicago: Five Decades, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA, January 21 - May 11, 2014; Trials and Tributes: A Judy Chicago Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, February 19 - April 3, 1999 and traveling.Published ReferencesEdward Lucie-Smith, Judy Chicago: An American Vision (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000), 113-116. Elizabeth A. Sackler, ed., Judy Chicago (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002), 82-83. Judy Chicago at Penn State (University Park, PA: Penn State School of Visual Arts, 2014), 28, 31, 33 (ill., color), 41 Judy Chicago: ReViewing PowerPlay (Santa Fe: David Richard Gallery, 2012)., ill. 20-21, color? Judy Chicago: Herstory, eds., Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, and Margot Norton, with Madeline Weisburg, exh. cat. (New York: Phaidon Press Limited and New Museum, 2023), 170 (ill. color), 287.