The Lovers (Somali Friends)
1950
Painter, American, 1905 - 1998

Artwork overview
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Medium
casein on canvas
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase from the Estate of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
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Dimensions
overall: 38.1 × 45.72 cm (15 × 18 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.215
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gift 1950 from the artist to Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Sr., and Elizabeth Moore;[1] their son, Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr. [1952-1997], Washington; purchased 1998 from his estate through (Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington) by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] According to the 1998 acquisition proposal written by Corcoran curator Linda Crocker Simmons, the painting was given to Tibbs and Moore on the occasion of their 1950 marriage; see NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1989
African-American Artists, 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, more than twenty venues, January 1989 - November 1992, no. 26, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q46635759