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A lightly sketched head outline encloses a soft peach wash. An irregular orange and brown blotch with jagged black ink borders sits near the right, accented by thick strokes of white paint.
Self Portrait 5m
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Self Portrait 5m

Artist Hiram Williams (American, 1917 - 2003)
Date2000
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Hiram and Avonell Williams
Object number2002.7.12
Collections
Visual DescriptionA lightly sketched head outline encloses a soft peach wash. An irregular orange and brown blotch with jagged black ink borders sits near the right, accented by thick strokes of white paint.
Drawing with a horizontal band of dark green and black strokes along the bottom edge and a central, abstract, banana shape painted in soft washes of pink, grey, and white.
Banana with Purple Stripes
Hiram Williams
1978
A drawing featuring a drawn upper border enclosing a smudged grey wash with thin diagonal lines. Below this is a thick, wavy reddish-brown band covered in short dark marks, with two vertical streaks extending into the blank white lower section.
Where Only Man is Vile
Hiram Williams
1992
A faint pencil outline of a head. The center features a diffused patch of red pigment containing a dark, jagged diagonal mark. A small grey smudge sits below the red.
Contented Man
Hiram Williams
1983
A minimalist vertical drawing on white paper. It features the faint outline of a figure's head with a collaged photographs of two eyes and a light wash of pink and red.
Advanced Middle Age
Hiram Williams
1984
A drawing featuring an earthy reddish-brown wash overlaid with thin, erratic, grass-like lines at the lower left. Three thick, textured white vertical strips span the composition.
Mountain Ranges and Beech (Audience Destroys its Environment)
Hiram Williams
1992
A faint, vertical drawing on white paper features an outline of a face surrounded by a purple background. The center shows a minimal sketch of a nose and mouth with soft pink shading.
Determined Man
Hiram Williams
c. 1984
Abstract drawing of an outline of a face with dark nose, casting a dark shadow. Irregular grey and tan washes frame the upper left and lower left corners.
Black Nose
Hiram Williams
1971
Painting of an outline of face with white irregular brushstrokes at center. The background is comprised of loose brushstrokes in shades of green.
Curious Man
Hiram Williams
1965
Abstract mixed-media drawing on off-white paper featuring a central area of pale orange and pink wash. Surrounding this are faint graphite lines, scribbles, and smudges in grey and black.
Chorus Line Skinned
Hiram Williams
1986
A painting depicting a head and shoulders on a brushed blue background. The face lacks discernible features, rendered in smeared peach, pink, and reddish flesh tones, and is obscured by a series of dotted white horizontal lines.
Large Head, Blue, Four Mouths
Hiram Williams
c. 1980
A horizontal abstract artwork on white paper features fine, dark, branching lines that rise from the bottom. Soft washes of pale orange and pink are blended behind the lines.
Study Out of West Window of Boyd Trailer
Hiram Williams
1983
A horizontal collage on white paper depicts an animal lying on its back. The creature's body is rendered in soft pink and gray tones.
Dead Dog XI
Hiram Williams
1985

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