Gate Leg Table
David Driskell, American, 1931 - 2020
1966
Oil and found objects on canvas
Overall: 48 1/4 × 35 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (122.6 × 90.2 × 7.9 cm)
Frame: 44 1/2 × 35 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (113 × 90.2 × 3.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through a gift from Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, by exchange
2018.6
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Classification
Painting
Not on view
Exhibition History
The Expanding Universe of Postwar Art, Northeast Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-April 7, 2019.
David Driskell: Icons of Nature & History, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, February 6-May 9, 2021; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, June 19-September 12, 2021; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, October 16, 2021-January 9, 2022; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 25-May 15, 2022.
David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Creative Spirit: The Art of David C. Driskell, September 15 - December 16, 2011.
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, David Driskell. Creative Spirit: Five Decades, January 6 - February 4, 2012, no. 6.
Bowie State College Gallery of Art, Bowie, MD, David Driskell: One Decade of Painting, 1965-75, April 12 – May 14, 1978.
Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, David Driskell: A Survey, October 21 – December 5, 1980, no. 15. Traveled to Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, January 1981.
Publication History
Leslie King-Hammond, "David Driskell: Memoir of a Painter cum Scholar." International Review of African American Art. 14.1 (1997): 8, illus.
Keith Morrison, David Driskell: A Survey. Exh. cat. Baltimore, MD: Reese Press, 1980, pp. 15, 18, 20, illus., 23, 24.
Julie L. McGee, David C Driskell: Artist and Scholar, California: Pomegranate, 2006, pp. 73, 84, 74, illus.
Creative Spirit: The Art of David C. Driskell. Exh. cat. College Park, MD: David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, 2011. pp. 36, 39, 43-44, 25, illus.
Provenance
D. C. Moore Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2018.
Old Number
Inventory number DRI 0108
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