The Good Shepherd, c. 1918

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Medium

oil on canvas on particle board

Dimensions

overall: 60.33 × 48.26 cm (23 3/4 × 19 in.)

framed: 71.76 × 60.33 × 3.49 cm (28 1/4 × 23 3/4 × 1 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)

Accession Number

2014.136.159

Artists / Makers

Henry Ossawa Tanner (painter) American, 1859 - 1937

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Inscription

lower left: H O TANNER

Provenance

Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr. [1952-1997], Washington, by 1989;[1] gift 1996 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 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. It was also shown in an exhibition at Tibbs' gallery in 1985, but it is not clear if the work was on loan or actually in Tibbs' collection at that time.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Tibbs, Thurlow Evans, Jr.

Exhibition History

1985: Henry O. Tanner, William A. Harper, William E. Scott: A Mentor and His Influence, The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, D.C., 18 January - 30 March 1985, no. 1, repro.

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. 6, fig. 11.

1999: Celebrating the Legacy: African-American Art at the Corcoran, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999.

2002: African American Art from the Collection of the Corcoran, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2003.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

1989: Patton, Sharon F. African-American Artists 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection. Washington, D.C., 1989: 28, 122, fig. 11.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 319, repro.