Lucille Corcos

1934

Adolph Gottlieb

Painter, American, 1903 - 1974

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on paper on hardboard

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of David C. Levy)

  • Dimensions

    overall: 50.8 × 35.88 cm (20 × 14 1/8 in.)
    framed: 67.31 × 52.07 × 5.72 cm (26 1/2 × 20 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.198

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The sitter, Lucille Corcos [1908-1973]; by inheritance to her son, David C. Levy [b. 1938], Washington;[1] gift December 1991 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] David Levy was President and Director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art from 1991 to 2006. He had Babcock Galleries in New York handle the loan of the painting to a 1991 exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design, and there is a Babcock label on the painting's reverse; see Levy's letter of 1 December 1991 to Robin Martin, chairman of the Corcoran Board, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1934

  • Group Exhibition, Uptown Gallery, New York, 12 June - 2 July 1934, no. 47, as Lucille.

1991

  • [exhibition], Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1991.

Bibliography

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 298, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: Adolph Gottlieb 1935 [1]

Wikidata ID

Q46634901

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