The Clown
1953
Sculptor, American, 1908 - 1961
NGA, East Building, EU-407-B, N
Artwork overview
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Medium
limestone
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
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Dimensions
overall: 53.66 × 11.85 × 14.61 cm (21 1/8 × 4 11/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
gross weight: 19.505 kg (43 lb.) -
Accession
2015.19.3934
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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