Friday Art Find: Portrait of Myself

Florine Stettheimer's 1923 oil painting Portrait of Myself is credited as the first female full-figure nude self-portrait.

Often, just when we think she is being her most naïvely "uninfluenced," Stettheimer is in fact translating some recherché source into her own idiom. Such is the case with the Portrait of Myself of 1923, which draws upon the eccentric and visionary art of William Blake.

—Linda Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays, pp. 112-114