Peak and Plane
1980
Artist, American, 1931 - 2020
Artwork overview
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Medium
egg tempera, mesh fabric, and collage on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)
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Dimensions
sheet: 48.74 × 63.98 cm (19 3/16 × 25 3/16 in.)
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Accession
2015.143.169
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C.); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1981
Washington Works on Paper: Recent Acquisitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981.
1982
Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982-1983.
1988
Afro-American Artists in the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 12 - February 28, 1988.
2003
Black is a Color: African American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, 2003-2007.
2021
David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History, High Musuem of Art, Atlanta; Portland Museum of Art; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2021-2022 (shown only in Portland and Washington).
Bibliography
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 242, no. 1613.
Inscriptions
lower left in tempera: Driskell 80; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 1913 H [circled]
Wikidata ID
Q64540783