Reaching
1979
Artist, American, born 1951

Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite and colored pencil on graph paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
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Dimensions
sheet: 61.12 × 91.28 cm (24 1/16 × 35 15/16 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.3010
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