Mamie Harrington
1985
Painter, American, born 1942

Artwork overview
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Medium
acrylic and oil pastel on Masonite
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
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Dimensions
overall: 122.24 × 167.96 cm (48 1/8 × 66 1/8 in.)
framed: 125.41 × 171.45 × 4.13 cm (49 3/8 × 67 1/2 × 1 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.210
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr. [1952-1997], Washington, by 1989;[1] gift 1996 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] According to the artist; see the notes of her visit to the NGA on 28 January 2020, in NGA curatorial files. The painting was included in the travelling exhibition of the Tibbs collection that began its multi-year tour in January 1989.
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. 62, fig. 55.
Bibliography
2021
Donovan, Patricia A. "Permanence in This Changing World: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment Challenge Grant." Art for the Nation no. 64 (Fall 2021): 3, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q46640789