Still Life
1943
Painter, American, 1915 - 2010

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on compressed particle board
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
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Dimensions
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.) -
Accession
2015.19.206
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr. [1952-1997], Washington, possibly by 1987, certainly by 1989;[1] gift 1996 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The painting was lent to the exhibition of the Tibbs collection that began its multi-year tour in January 1989, and was possibly lent to a 1987 exhibition that included works from his collection. A label from The Veerhoff Galleries in Washington is on the reverse of the frame; this is possibly where Tibbs purchased the painting.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1982
Margaret Burroughs, Marion Perkins: A Retrospective, The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, 18 September - 30 November 1982, no. 4, as Abstract Still Life, dated 1944.
1987
Possibly Collectors' Choices: The Art of Collecting - An Exhibition of Art Chosen from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, the Hewitt Collection, the Somerhill Gallery, Art Museum of North Carolina Central University, Durham, 1987, no. 1 (list from the Evans-Tibbs Collection).
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Legacy: African American Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 January - 25 February 2002, unpublished checklist.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.
Wikidata ID
Q46635597