Josephine Riley Matthews

c. 1989

Brian Lanker

Associated Names
Brian Lanker

Artist, American, 1947 - 2011

The image shows the upper part of an elderly person's body, focusing closely on their face and shoulders. The person is leaning back in a wooden chair, facing slightly away from the camera, providing a side profile view. Their facial features include deep-set eyes looking straight ahead, and they are wearing round glasses. The person has short, white hair. They are wearing a textured, long-sleeved garment. In the background, the setting appears to be outdoors, with blurred foliage and tree shapes, creating a bokeh effect with light filtering through the leaves. The image is black and white.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 25.72 × 23.5 cm (10 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.4510

  • Series Title

    I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Brian Lanker, Eugene, OR; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1989

  • Lanker, Brian and Barbara Summers, ed. I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women who Changed America. New York, 1989: 137.

Inscriptions

on verso of mat, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner in graphite: 1996.10.9

Wikidata ID

Q64145556

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