Sterling Boyd Strauser (American, 1907–1995)Large Self-PortraitSigned and dated 65 top right, oil on Masonite.18 1/4 x 12 in. (46.4 x 30.5cm)Unframedtogether with:Self-Portrait with JasperSigned and dated 75 bottom left, oil on Masonite.9 x 6 1/2 in. (22.9 x 16.5cm)Unframedtogether with:Self-PortraitSigned and dated 70 top right, oil on Masonite.8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2cm)together with:Self-Portrait as a Young ManWatercolor on paper.Executed circa 1923.10 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (27.3 x 21.6cm)(4)PROVENANCE:The Artist.Private Collection, Princeton, New Jersey (by descent in family).Literature:Francis R. Ricci, Sterling Strauser: A Modernist Revisited,Reading: Reading Public Museum, 1999, illustrated p. 2.note:"Taking inspiration from Rembrandt whose portraits he so much admired, Strauser's self portraits are straightforward and honest embodying a quality of truthfulness that is revealed in his brush strokes - small, descriptive points of color, agitated swatches or smooth, broad sweeps. In each the viewer reaches a new level of understanding and intimacy with the artist who, while revealing a different aspect of his exterior self to us always projects the central humanity of the man." Sterling Strauser: A Modernist Revisited, p. 13.