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Legacy: African American Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 January - 25 February 2002, unpublished checklist.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