What Pandemic Portraits Illuminate About Balancing Vulnerability and Inurement

Portraits of clinicians quickly became emblematic of what the COVID-19 pandemic has demanded of everyone, especially caregivers who witnessed deaths likely unprecedented in number during their careers. This article describes an arts-based research protocol exploring portraiture as a medium for representing and understanding clinicians' experiences, mostly during the first year of the pandemic. This article presents Shadow of Corona , a large oil on canvas portrait commissioned by the AMA Journal of Ethics to commemorate the American Medical Association's 175th year. The article also includes Sarah , a charcoal study drawing for that portrait, and Front Lines of Care , a 3 by 3 collection of 9 smaller oil on canvas portraits

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• Portrait of a process

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• Reflections on Portraiture

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