
Art Institute of Chicago
A Small Tower (Moonlight)
James Pryde · c. 1911/12
Provenance
Ownership history
- George F. Porter, purchased at the International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show), New York, March 7, 1913 [Walter Pach’s sales ledger, Archives of American Art]; by descent to his wife Mima de Manziarly Porter, 1927 [“Porter Wills $2,300,000 to His Widow,” Chicago Daily Tribune, March 4, 1927, in curatorial file]; donated as part of the George F. Porter collection at the Art Institute [Permanent receipt, R3314/4, April 30, 1927, in curatorial file]
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art, February 17–March 15, 1913, cat. 399; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 24–April 16, 1913 (cat. 299).
- Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1913 Armory Show—50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963, February 17–March 31, 1963, p. 200, no. 399; traveled to New York, Armory of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, April 6–28, 1963.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions, June 20–September 27, 2015.
Literature
Published references
- International Exhibition of Modern Art, exh. cat. (New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc., 1913), cat. 399.
- International Exhibition of Modern Art, 2nd ed., exh. cat. (New York: Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc., 1913), cat. 299.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 167, as Moonlight.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), p. 361.
- Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1913 Armory Show—50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963, exh. cat. (New York: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963), p. 20, no. 399.
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