The Clown, 1953

East Building, Upper Level — Gallery 407-B

Medium

limestone

Dimensions

overall: 53.66 × 11.85 × 14.61 cm (21 1/8 × 4 11/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
gross weight: 19.505 kg (43 lb.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2015.19.3934

Artists / Makers

Marion Perkins (sculptor) American, 1908 - 1961

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Inscription

on the back: MP

Provenance

Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr. [1952-1997], Washington, by 1982;[1] gift 1996 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; aquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The sculpture was shown in a 1982 exhibition of the Tibbs collection.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Tibbs, Thurlow Evans, Jr.

Exhibition History

1982: Margaret Burroughs, Marion Perkins: A Retrospective, The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, 18 September - 30 November 1982, no. 7.

1987: Evans-Tibbs Collection of Harlem Renaissance Artists, Euphrates Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 17 July - 27 September 1987, no. 31.