Lucille Corcos

1934

Adolph Gottlieb

Associated Names
Adolph Gottlieb

Painter, American, 1903 - 1974

The image shows a half-length portrait of a person against a greenish-brown background. The person faces slightly to the left, with an elongated face, arched eyebrows, a long nose, and full lips. They have short, dark, combed back hair and wear a light-colored garment with red accents. They hold a cylindrical object in their right hand and their left hand rests below. Carved details on the chair are visible just above their shoulders. The painting is signed "A. Gotlieb 1935" in the bottom right corner.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on paper on hardboard

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of David C. Levy)

  • Dimensions

    overall: 50.8 × 35.88 cm (20 × 14 1/8 in.)
    framed: 67.31 × 52.07 × 5.72 cm (26 1/2 × 20 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.198

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The sitter, Lucille Corcos [1908-1973]; by inheritance to her son, David C. Levy [b. 1938], Washington;[1] gift December 1991 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] David Levy was President and Director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art from 1991 to 2006. He had Babcock Galleries in New York handle the loan of the painting to a 1991 exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design, and there is a Babcock label on the painting's reverse; see Levy's letter of 1 December 1991 to Robin Martin, chairman of the Corcoran Board, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1934

  • Group Exhibition, Uptown Gallery, New York, 12 June - 2 July 1934, no. 47, as Lucille.

1991

  • [exhibition], Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1991.

Bibliography

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 298, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: Adolph Gottlieb 1935 [1]

Wikidata ID

Q46634901

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