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Earlene

1988

Whitfield Lovell

Artist, American, born 1959

Whitfield Lovell

Medium

color oil stick and charcoal on three sheets of joined wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with funds to the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art from Lolo Sarnoff)
Dimensions

overall: 96.52 × 162.56 cm (38 × 64 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.3240

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(DC Moore Gallery, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1993

The Bronx Celebrates: Whitfield Lovell, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, 1993, no. 5, repro

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, no. 14

2013

Roots and Links: Gifts from the Women’s Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013

Inscriptions

verso: Whitfield Lovell

Wikidata ID

Q64635096

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