Visitors to the Ransom Center have the opportunity to view one of Frida Kahlo's most iconic paintings: an untitled self-portrait known as Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird.

FRIDA KAHLO: This untitled self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird is often on view at the Center. WILLIAM BLAKE: More than 50,000 images, including this illustration by William Blake, are available for anyone to browse and study in the Center's digital collections.

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Harry Ransom Center, Austin Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird ( Autorretrato con Collar de Espinas ) is a 1940 self-portrait by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo which also includes a black cat, a monkey, and two dragonflies.

Nov 23, 2015 · AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, celebrates the homecoming of one of its most famous and frequently borrowed art works, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s “Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” (1940).

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Mar 24, 2023 · AUSTIN, Texas — Frida Kahlo’s “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” returns home at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. The painting by the Mexican artist was on loan for five months at an art museum in South Africa.

This painting is housed at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas. "Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" by Frida Kahlo, painted in 1940, is one of Kahlo's most iconic works.

The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.

Mar 5, 2010 · The Harry Ransom Center is displaying Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s Self–portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) through March 21. The painting, one of the Ransom Center’s most famous and frequently borrowed art works, has been on almost continuous loan since 1990.