Uncle Tiff

1856–1857

22 cm 30 cm 14 cm

Citation

Uncle Tiff is one of the exceedingly few works known to survive by the African American sculptor, Eugène Warburg (ca.1825/1826–1859). The scholar Paul H. D. Kaplan has recently written on Warburg and notes that Uncle Tiff “may well have been the first African American sculptur...

Sculpture

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Private collection, Oxfordshire, England, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; sale, Churchill Auctions Ltd., Didcot, Oxfordshire, England, 9 April 2024, lot 1768; purchased by the Walters Art Museum, 2024.
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2901

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