Singing Saints
1940
Artist, American, 1888 - 1967
Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
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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.) -
Accession
2015.19.3012
Artwork history & notes
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
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
Inscriptions
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
Markings
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
Watermarks
WARREN'S / OLDE STYLE
Wikidata ID
Q77015270