Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of Eva
Marion Perkins · c. 1947
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, c. 1947; sold to Joyce and Edward Gourfain, Chicago [Schulman 1999]. Susan Woodson Gallery, Chicago, by 1996 [correspondence between Daniel Schulman and Susan Woodson, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8231/in-their-own-right-images-of-african-americans"><em>In Their Own Right: Images of African Americans</em></a>, Sept. 27, 1997–Jan. 19, 1998.
- Chicago Public Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro–American History and Literature, <em>“to see reality in a new light:” The Art and Activism of Marion Perkin</em>, Jan. 31–Dec. 31, 2009, cat. published in 2013, p. 16–17, as <em>Head of Eva</em>.
Literature
Published references
- Daniel Schulman, “Marion Perkins: A Chicago Sculptor Rediscovered,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 24, 2 (1999): 86–7, 98, 100, fig. 3.
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