Self-Portrait of Phyllis Diller
name: label: maker
content: Diller, Phyllis
notes: label: Description
content: This framed work of art is a self-portrait of Phyllis Diller. She depicts herself on a blue background with a black marker outline of her face and hair with blue eyes and pink lips enhanced with colored paint. Diller began painting for pleasure in the mid-1980s. During this time, she was staying in a large suite at Harrah’s in Reno, NV where she had enough space to set up several easels and canvases. She described her style as painting quickly and without too much thought about each individual painting. This quick style allowed her to complete anywhere from ten to twenty-five paintings per day.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Humor
label: Subject
content: Comedians
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Phyllis Diller
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Phyllis Diller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0289.20
label: accession number
content: 2003.0289
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0289.20
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt tip pen (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 13 in x 1/2 in; 40.64 cm x 33.02 cm x 1.27 cm