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Cafe L'Avenue

1932

Palmer Hayden

Artist, American, 1890 - 1973

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Artwork overview

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
Dimensions

sheet: 23.5 × 18.73 cm (9 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.)
Accession

2015.19.3011

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thurlow Evan Tibbs, Jr., Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

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: no. 23, fig. 18.

Inscriptions

lower left in black watercolor: PC Hayden

Wikidata ID

Q64618781

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