Portrait of Eva

Arts of the Americas

c. 1947

Marion Perkins
American, 1908–1961

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Marion Perkins
Title: Portrait of Eva
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1947
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 31.1 × 21.6 × 20.3 cm (12 1/4 × 8 1/2 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1996.400

Daniel Schulman, “Marion Perkins: A Chicago Sculptor Rediscovered,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999): 86–7, 98, 100, fig. 3.

Chicago Public Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, “to see reality in a new light:” The Art and Activism of Marion Perkin, Jan. 31–Dec. 31, 2009, cat. published in 2013, p. 16–17, as Head of Eva.

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.

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