Dat Ol' Black Magic
1981
Artist, American, born 1926
Artwork overview
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Medium
paper and plastic collage on printed cotton fabric
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
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Dimensions
sheet (irregular): 34.93 × 33.66 cm (13 3/4 × 13 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2014.136.225
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr. [1952-1997], Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1985
The Art of Collage, The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, DC, 1985, no. 28
2003
Black is a Color: African American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, 2003-2007
2015
Focus on the Corcoran: Works on Paper, 1860-1990, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: Betye Saar 1981
Wikidata ID
Q64537550