The Rescue of Dorie Miller
1942
Artist, American, 1914 - 1985

Artwork overview
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Medium
gouache with brush and black ink on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
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Dimensions
sheet (irregular): 16.83 × 13.34 cm (6 5/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.3015
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr., Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1984
Charles Sebree: A Retrospective, The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, DC, 1984, p. 7, 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. 30, fig. 29.
2003
Challenge of the Modern: African American Artists 1925-1945, Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, 2003
Bibliography
1943
Dodsen, Owen. "The Ballad of Dorie Miller." Theatre Arts 27 (1943): p. 436.
2002
Finch, Tony. "Charles Sebree's 'Boys Without Penises': A Hermetic Self-Portrait?" International Review of African American Art 18, no. 3 (2002): pp. 19-21.
Inscriptions
lower right in black gouache: SEBREE
Wikidata ID
Q64538853