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Inscription

lower right: Adolph Gottlieb 1935 [1]

Inscription Notes

[1] Although the painting is dated 1935, the Gottlieb Foundation believes the painting was executed in 1934. It was included in an exhibition held in the summer of 1934 at the Uptown Gallery in New York, and the style and type of signature matches those made by the artist in the 1960s. It is thought that the artist signed and dated the painting in the 1960s for the Levy family, and did not accurately remember the year he painted it. The Corcoran Gallery of Art corrected the date of the painting in their records in 2011.

Provenance

The sitter, Lucille Corcos [1908-1973]; by inheritance to her son, David C. Levy [b. 1938], Washington;[1] gift December 1991 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] David Levy was President and Director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art from 1991 to 2006. He had Babcock Galleries in New York handle the loan of the painting to a 1991 exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design, and there is a Babcock label on the painting's reverse; see Levy's letter of 1 December 1991 to Robin Martin, chairman of the Corcoran Board, in NGA curatorial files.

Exhibition History

1934
Group Exhibition, Uptown Gallery, New York, 12 June - 2 July 1934, no. 47, as Lucille.
1991
[exhibition], Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1991.

Bibliography

2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 298, repro.

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