- Titles Reclining Woman (Gladys) (Proper)
- Artist John N. Robinson, American, 1912 - 1994
- Medium oil on canvasboard
- Dimensions 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm)
- Credit Line Museum purchase, 2020.68, image © Estate of John N. Robinson
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- On View
- Signature Verso: Upper left, in black ink: John N. Robinson / 1952
- Inscription Verso, typescript label: TITLE---Gladys / MEDIUM---Oil / NAME---John N. Robinson / ADDRESS---2904 Langston Pl. S. E. / TELEPONE---Lu 2-0535 / PRICE---$200.00 Verso, handwritten label, in blue ink: John N. Robinson / 2904 Langston Pl. S.E. / Wash. D.C. Lu-1-1175 / (Reclining Woman) / oil / [crossed out in black marker] 243 Verso, handwritten label, in black marker with blue and red ink: John N. Robinson / TITLE Reclining Woman / SIZE 25 x 31 [23 x 29 crossed out in blue ink] / CANVAS 18 x 24 / MEDIUM Oil / DATE 1952 #28 [in red ink] / DESCRIPTION Gladys
- Provenance The artist; purchased by Joel Alan Chaseman (1926-2020), Washington, DC, by 1988 [see note 1]; Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, DC; auctioned at Sale 007, Sloans & Kenyon, May 9, 2004, lot 01630 [see note 2]; purchased by Jason Schoen, Princeton, New Jersey; auctioned at African American Art, Swann Auction Galleries, December 10, 2020, lot 28; purchased by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 2020
1. Ellen Sue Collison, "Mirror Image: The Portraiture of John N. Robinson," MA Thesis, George Washington University, 1979, vii.
2. Sold for $9,500 against an estimate of $5,000 - 7,000.