Washington, D.C. Marian Anderson broadcasting a Negro spiritual at the dedication of a mural installed in the United States Department of the Interior building, commemorating the outdoor concert which she gave at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to sing in Constitution Hall

January 1943, printed later

Gordon Parks

Artist, American, 1912 - 2006

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Dimensions

image: 24.1 × 19.2 cm (9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.5 cm (10 × 8 1/16 in.)
Accession

2016.117.119

Provenance

Gordon Parks, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1998; acquired by NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 10, 1997 – January 11, 1998

2019

One Life: Marian Anderson, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, Washington (28 Jun 2019 – 13 Mar 2020)

Inscriptions

on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom left in graphite: CGA40; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: LC-USW3-13421-D