The Clown

1953

Marion Perkins

Sculptor, American, 1908 - 1961

Marion Perkins

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On View

East Building Upper Level, Gallery 407-B


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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr. [1952-1997], Washington, by 1982;[1] gift 1996 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; aquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The sculpture was shown in a 1982 exhibition of the Tibbs collection.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Margaret Burroughs, Marion Perkins: A Retrospective, The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, 18 September - 30 November 1982, no. 7.

1987

  • Evans-Tibbs Collection of Harlem Renaissance Artists, Euphrates Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 17 July - 27 September 1987, no. 31.

Inscriptions

on the back: MP

Wikidata ID

Q63864264


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