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Ellen Powell TiberinoThree Sisters: large abstract expressionist figural painting & breast feedingca. 1980s
ca. 1980s
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Ellen Powell Tiberino, matriarch of the Tiberino artist dynasty that includes her artist-husband Joseph and three artist-children (Raphael, Gabriel, and Ellen), often looked to Black women and girls as subjects, in the contexts of motherhood, pregnancy, and childhood, as well as subjects drawn from her neighborhood communities. Her work is expressionistic and passionate with dramatic gestures and dark colorism in her figures, but it is also intimate and highly personal. At this point in her career, Tiberino had been struggling with cancer, and as a result, her palette became brighter and more colorful than her former dark palette.
"Three Sisters" includes Ellen Powell Tiberino’s self-portrait in the front of the composition, nursing an infant. Tiberino’s two sisters, Joyce and Anne, sit behind her. Tiberino likely paints from memory or imagination here, since her four children were well beyond nursing age when she created this painting. "Three Sisters" is likely among the last large-scale canvases Tiberino completed, opting to work on a smaller scale and while seated as her illness progressed. Tiberino ultimately lost her battle in 1992.
"Three Sisters" comes from a private Main Line, PA collection, acquired directly from the artist immediately upon its completion. Framed in original wood strip frame.
It is in excellent condition.
Tiberino graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1959, where she was awarded a prestigious Cresson scholarship to study in Europe. After returning to the US, she lived and worked in New York until she married fellow artist (Joseph) and returned to her hometown of Philadelphia where she continued to create oil paintings, oil pastels drawings, sculptures, murals, and mosaics. In Philadelphia, she was part of social and professional circles that included Moe Brooker, Barbara Bullock, Walter Edmonds, Charles Pridgen, Leroy Johnson, John Simpson, James Dupree, Nanette Carter, Deryl Daniel Mackie, and Charles Searles.
Tiberino’s work has been collected and exhibited extensively at institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Museum of African American Art (Tampa, FL), Delaware Art Museum, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Cheyney University, Woodmere Art Museum, African American Museum in Philadelphia, Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art (NJ), Free Library of Philadelphia, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie (NJ), Temple University, Ile-Ife Museum of Afro-American Culture, Lincoln University, and the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.
- Creator:Ellen Powell Tiberino (1937 - 1992, American, African)
- Creation Year:ca. 1980s
- Dimensions:Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 60 in (152.4 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Bryn Mawr, PA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1416215836912
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