Red Star

1970

Raymond Saunders

Associated Names
Raymond Saunders

Painter, American, 1934 - 2025

This painting displays a central five-pointed red star with an ampersand in the middle, surrounded by abstract shapes and lines. The rest of the painting features bold colors like yellow, blue, orange, and purple, with scribble-like marks resembling city graffiti. Layered textures and patterns create a mixed media collage effect, and some places appear to have handwritten or printed text.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr. [1952-1997], Washington, by 1989;[1] gift 1996 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The painting was lent to the exhibition of the Tibbs collection that began its multi-year tour in January 1989.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Afro-American Abstract Artists, 1945-1985, The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, 1986, no. 13, cover repro.

1989

  • African-American Artists, 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, more than twenty venues, January 1989 - November 1992, no. 39, fig. 58.

2008

  • The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

1989

  • Patton, Sharon F. "The Search for Identity 1950-1987" in African-American Artists 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection. Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C. 1989: 96-104.

Inscriptions

lower left in pencil: SAUNDERS R; lower right: various inscriptions; over entire painting: stenciled notations

Wikidata ID

Q46638966

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