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Margaret G. Burroughs: American, 1915 or 1917 - 2011

Still Life
1943: oil on compressed particle board; overall: 50.48 × 39.37 cm (19 7/8 × 15 1/2 in.); framed: 60.96 × 49.85 × 3.49 cm (24 × 19 5/8 × 1 3/8 in.); Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.); 2015.19.206; Not on View

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Provenance

Thurlow E. Tibbs, Jr., [1952-1997] Washington;[1] gift 1996 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] A label from The Veerhoff Galleries in Washington is on the reverse of the frame. This is possibly where Tibbs purchased the painting.

Exhibition History

1982: Margaret Burroughs, Marion Perkins: A Retrospective, The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, 18 September - 30 November 1982, possibly cat. no. 4, as Abstract Still Life.

1989: African-American Artists, 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, more than twenty venues, January 1989 - November 1992, no. 18, fig. 30.

2001: Celebrating the Legacy: African American Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 January - 25 February 2002, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 291, repro.