Portrait of Madame Evanti (Lillian Tibbs), c. 1934

gelatin silver print

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

sheet: 34.29 × 26.67 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)

2015.19.4506

Addison Scurlock (artist) American, 1883 - 1964

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

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Tibbs, Thurlow Evans, Jr.

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.