Sister Geneva

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Sister Geneva

c. 1980

Ellen Powell Tiberino (American, 1937–1992)

Sister Geneva Lassiter, the artist's cousin, served for eighteen years as a missionary to Tanzania. Tiberino captures her powerful personality by modeling her face and hands in great detail with short pencil strokes, and animates her voluminous robe and billowing habit with softer, lighter lines. A graduate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Tiberino lived in Philadelphia throughout her adult life. Like Beauford Delaney, she had a distinct interest in portraiture.

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Object Details

Title:

Sister Geneva

Date:

c. 1980

Artist:

Ellen Powell Tiberino (American, 1937–1992)

Medium:

Graphite with stumping and erasing on cream wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 19 x 24 inches (48.3 x 61 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Julius Bloch Memorial Fund created by Benjamin D. Bernstein, 1990

Accession Number:

1990-117-1

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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