Reaching

1979

Robert Dilworth

Associated Names
Robert Dilworth

Artist, American, born 1951

The image shows overlapping curvilinear and rectilinear shapes creating an abstract pattern. The shapes resemble geometric forms like triangles, squares, and circles scattered across the canvas. The abstract shapes create a sense of fluidity, as if the elements are floating or fading into the background.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr., Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Afro-American Abstract Artists, 1945-1985, The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, DC, 1986, no. 18

Bibliography

1989

  • McElroy, Guy C., Richard J. Powell, and Sharon F. Patton. African American Artists, 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1989: cat. 47, fig. 61.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: When You Think You've Reached One Place In Life You Find The Soul Has Taken You Somewhere Else. [artist's monogram]; lower right in graphite: R Pegrm Dilworth [artist's monogram]

Markings

printed upper left in blue ink (reversed): PRINTED ON CLEARPRINT

Watermarks

No. 1020 Clearprint

Wikidata ID

Q64628891

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