Do you display in your home portraits of anyone other than your own family members?

No. Family members are in the kitchen on the wall. Almost all the rest of my art is abstract or modern.

No pictures of the Pope, Mickey Mantle, or Jim Brown.

The closest to a portrait in my home is a painting of a nude woman in the dark. But oh well, it doesn’t meet your standards.

Only the PsyDuck on my screensaver. My mom doesn’t want me to have a picture of her. I don’t have any photos of family.

No. The thought never crossed my mind. When I was a teen I never did that poster thing either that some of my friends did. I thought it weird people spent money on Farrah Fawcett and Shaun Cassidy posters.

My MIL has Jesus and Mary all over the whole like so many Latin Americans do. She has little statues mostly.

Well … sort of.

I have a very wide panoramic shot of the Harvard Class of ‘04 (1904, that is) 30-year reunion … which had been held at the White House. (FDR was in the Harvard Class of ‘04, and so was my paternal grandfather.) The shot contains literally hundreds of people, but my father and his brother and sister have my grandfather and grandmother in the front ranks, because prior to the photo being taken my dad and his brother, as young boys (my grandfather having married and started his family pretty late in life) had been playing barefoot on the sidewalk, but were ordered to put their shoes on for the photo, so they sat where they were to comply, and that put the family in the front row – highly unusual for our family.

But as I said, there are hundreds of others in the photo, and it’s interesting even to non-family to see the wealth (of wealth, for one thing, even that deep in the Depression) of clothing styles and fashion, attitudes and mannerisms of people in the shot. One woman in particular in the foreground seems to be a diva. (FDR himself is pictured in the extreme background, high up on the WH porch, and is actually indistinguishable – except that he’s clearly the center of attention.)

We have a bust of Beethoven on the piano. Other than that… no.

Do class photos count? I have one of my grandfather and his class from 1914 when he was 10 and one of myself and my classmates from 1964 when I was 10.

I bought my husband a framed picture of his favourite football team. It’s as much a piece of signed memorabilia as anything else. He hasn’t hung it.

Other than that, no.

I have framed pictures of Thomas Jefferson in my office next to a framed copy of the Declaration of Independence and a framed photo of Frank Zappa in my man cave…primarily because of his eclectic and incredible composition works but also for his standing as a practical conservative and championing the push back against Al and Tipper Gores push to censor musical lyrics….

“The PMRC proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes the civil liberties of people who are not children, and promises to keep the courts busy for years dealing with the interpretational and enforcemental problems inherent in the proposal’s design. It is my understanding that, in law, First Amendment issues are decided with a preference for the least restrictive alternative. In this context, the PMRC’s demands are the equivalent of treating dandruff by decapitation. ... The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow “J” on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?”

Group photos are something different from portraits. There is such a thing as a group portrait, but generally it’s a posed likeness of a single person.

I’m asking specifically about what’s on display in your home and not just something you have in a box or an album.

The King and Queen of Norway in my bathroom. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yWGaxtZ4PdM/VplUDObzVDI/AAAAAAAAR_c/DQ-MNz1Q1rQ/s640/harald%2Bsonja%2B2016.jpg

We have a beautifully framed portrait of all our house staff, past & present.
The only requirement we imposed on them was that they pose naked & saluted without a hint of a smile.
We throw darts at those that have since been fired, primarily as entertainment but also serves as a cautionary tale to those currently under our employ

Nope. After ‘63, I do remember a lot of people had portraits of JFK up in their homes. But I haven’t had any formal portraits of non family up ever.

There are two framed pictures in my house. One is a photo of my parents from around 30 years ago. The other one is the icon of Archangel Michael, Eastern Orthodox style.
Dunno if that counts.

I have a picture of Spock taped to the wall above my computer. @LuckyGuy included it in a package of tree nuts he sent me a couple of years ago, and it’s been up there ever since.

Thanks. I was just curious and am surprised that there haven’t been more yes answers.

What prompted me to ask is that I considered for the first time what an oddly mismatched trio of portraits I have on display, wondering what, if anything, it says about me.

On the cabinet above my desk there’s a small framed graphite portrait of Bob Dylan that I bought from a street vendor in Berkeley many years ago.

In the hall there are framed reproductions of two red chalk drawings of Rembrandt, one of them a landscape and the other a self-portrait, this one. They were gifts.

And in the living room there’s an original brush-and-ink portrait of Bodhidharma that’s poster size and looks a lot like this. I won it at a fund-raising dinner for a Zen center.

I have other artwork around, but these are the only ones that fall into the portrait category. Since I’ve been studying portraiture myself, I suddenly saw them as distinct.

You just reminded me of some portraits in my family. My sister has a portrait of my grandmother that my grandfather painted. It captures her well. It shows her reading. My sister has a portrait of me up in her apartment, also painted by my grandfather.

My grandfather as a young man studying at NYU painted David and Goliath, and we lost that painting. It was sold off with a lot of their material things. It was incredibly good, and it really bother me we no longer have it in the family.

He did a lot of Madonna and child series. I hope my sister has those. They were more abstract than what I listed above.

Nope. I don’t have portraits of family or strangers in any public parts of my house. In the back bedroom – which is where the bookshelves are – I have framed prints and posters of women reading. I generally don’t like photos or paintings of people around me.

I get a bit weirded out when I go into people’s homes where they have a lot of family photos out where visitors can see them. Photo albums (old school!) are good – photos on display, not good.