Portrait of Madame Evanti (Lillian Tibbs)
c. 1934
Artist, American, 1883 - 1964
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
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Dimensions
image: 23.5 × 18.73 cm (9 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.)
sheet: 34.29 × 26.67 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4506
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr., Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1989
McElroy, Guy C., Richard J. Powell, and Sharon F. Patton. African American Artists, 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1989: cat. 29, fig. 20.
2008
Malet, Rosa Maria et al. Modernitat Americana: Obres de la Corcoran Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2008: 94-95, 171.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right below image in brown pencil: SCURLOCK / PHOTO.; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in black ink: At home in Salon
Wikidata ID
Q64032448