Madame Evanti (Lillian Tibbs)

c. 1934

Addison Scurlock

Associated Names
Addison Scurlock

Artist, American, 1883 - 1964

The image shows a woman standing slightly turned to her right with a gaze directed upwards. She has a delicate smile, dark wavy hair with a light-colored floral accessory, and she is wearing an ornate dress with lace sleeves and a voluminous skirt. She is holding a fan and draped in a lace shawl. In the background, there is a folding screen with artistic designs, a panel of text, a fireplace, a rug, and a framed artwork on the wall above the fireplace.
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Article:  Washington, DC, through the Scurlock Lens

Meet Addison Scurlock and his sons—among the most important photographers of the Washington Black Renaissance.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr., Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996; acquired by NGA, 2015.

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: cat. 29, fig. 20.

2008

  • Malet, Rosa Maria et al. Modernitat Americana: Obres de la Corcoran Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2008: 94-95, 171.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right below image in brown pencil: SCURLOCK / PHOTO.; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in black ink: At home in Salon

Wikidata ID

Q64032448

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