Red Star, 1970

Not on View

Medium

oil, metallic paint, and collage (paper, synthetic fabric, and gummed tape) on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 141.92 × 116.21 cm (55 7/8 × 45 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)

Accession Number

2014.136.158

Artists / Makers

Raymond Saunders (painter) American, born 1934

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Inscription

lower left in pencil: SAUNDERS R; lower right: various inscriptions; over entire painting: stenciled notations

Provenance

Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr. [1952-1997], Washington, by 1989;[1] gift 1996 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The painting was lent to the exhibition of the Tibbs collection that began its multi-year tour in January 1989.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Tibbs, Thurlow Evans, Jr.

Exhibition History

1986: Afro-American Abstract Artists, 1945-1985, The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, 1986, no. 13, cover repro.

1989: African-American Artists, 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, more than twenty venues, January 1989 - November 1992, no. 39, fig. 58.

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

1989: Patton, Sharon F. "The Search for Identity 1950-1987" in African-American Artists 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection. Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C. 1989: 96-104.