The Grandfather
1983
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View on museum website →Medium
mixed media assemblage
Dimensions
overall: 30.8 × 21.27 × 3.81 cm (12 1/8 × 8 3/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
Accession Number
2015.19.3936
About the Artist
Renée Stout
Renée Stout, born in 1958 in Junction City, Kansas, was raised in Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood from the age of one. Her family nurtured creativity: her mother practiced needlework, her father worked as a mechanic and steelworker who enjoyed tinkering, and an uncle pursued fine-art painting. As a child, she attended weekend classes at the Carnegie Museum of Art, where African sculptures l...