Mamie Harrington
1985
Sylvia Snowden
Painter, American, born 1942
 
        Artwork overview
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            Mediumacrylic and oil pastel on Masonite 
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            Credit LineCorcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.) 
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            Dimensionsoverall: 122.24 × 167.96 cm (48 1/8 × 66 1/8 in.) 
 framed: 125.41 × 171.45 × 4.13 cm (49 3/8 × 67 1/2 × 1 5/8 in.)
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            Accession Number2015.19.210 
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by 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] According to the artist; see the notes of her visit to the NGA on 28 January 2020, in NGA curatorial files. The painting was included in the travelling exhibition of the Tibbs collection that began its multi-year tour  in January 1989.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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. 62, fig. 55. 
Bibliography
2021
- Donovan, Patricia A. "Permanence in This Changing World: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment Challenge Grant." Art for the Nation no. 64 (Fall 2021): 3, repro. 
Wikidata ID
Q46640789 
   
   
    