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The Grandfather

1983

Renée Stout

Sculptor, American, born 1958

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Artwork overview

Medium

mixed media assemblage
Credit Line

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

overall: 30.8 × 21.27 × 3.81 cm (12 1/8 × 8 3/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Accession

2015.19.3936

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

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Inscriptions

across bottom front in white ink, the artist's initials in monogram within a rectangle: 1983 THE GRANDFATHER RS

Wikidata ID

Q63864370

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