Peak and Plane

1980

David C. Driskell

Artist, American, 1931 - 2020

David C. Driskell

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Artwork overview


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), plate 57, repro.

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.

2021

  • May, Jessica, editor.David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History. Exh. cat. High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Portland Museum of Art, Portland; the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 20201-2022: 150, pl. 57.

Inscriptions

lower left in tempera: Driskell 80; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 1913 H [circled]

Wikidata ID

Q64540783


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