Singing Saints, 1940

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Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 30.48 × 23.5 cm (12 × 9 1/4 in.)

sheet: 40.48 × 30.64 cm (15 15/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2015.19.3012

Artists / Makers

Sargent Claude Johnson (artist) American, 1888 - 1967

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Singing Saints 105/180; lower right in graphite: Sargent Johnson; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Sargent Johnson; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 400422 dark / 51 NO / 7

Marks and Labels

stamped lower left verso in black ink: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts; stamped lower left verso in brown ink: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Duplicate

Provenance

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, California; Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr., Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Tibbs, Thurlow Evans, Jr.

Exhibition History

1999: Celebrating the Legacy: African American Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999

2003: Black is a Color: African American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, 2003-2007

2007: Impressionism, Realism, Modernism: Works on Paper from the American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007