Ad Astra

1. The artist (died 1931); by descent to his widow, Mary Gallen-Kallela (died 1947), Finland, 1931; given to the family's company, Gallen-Kallelan Taide O.Y., Helsinki, Finland, 1936 [according to email correspondence from Janne Sirén, Mar. 13, 2017]; transferred to the descendants of Jorma Gallen-Kallela, the artist’s son, Finland, 1947; by descent within the family, 1987; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Helsinki, Finland, Finska Konstnärernas 23DJE Utställning I Ateneum, Nov. 16–Dec. 10, 1913, cat. 33.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of Paintings by Axel Gallen-Kallela, December 18, 1923–January 20, 1924, cat. 66.
• Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery, Paintings by Axel Gallen-Kallela and Douglass Parshall, May 1924, cat. 50.
• Helsinki, Finland, Kalevalan Riemuvuoden Näyttely Akseli Gallen-Kallelan Muistonäyttely Kalevalan 100-Vuotisriemujuhlat, February 28–March 17, 1935, cat. 198.
• Espoo, Gallen-Kallelan Museo, Pysyväinen Kokoelma, 1963, cat 88.
• Espoo, Tarvaspään Museossa, Akseli Gallen-Kallelan 100 vuotisjuhanäyttely, April 26–September 30, 1965, cat. 42.
• Finland, Tampere Art Museum, Akseli & Nuori Suomi: Akseli Gallen-Kallela suomalaisuuden rakentajana, Tampereen taidemuseo, Apr. 29–Oct. 1, 2006, no cat.
• The Netherlands, Groninger Museum, Akseli Gallen-Kallela The Spirit of Finland, December 17, 2006–April 15, 2007, no cat. no., p. 208–209.
• Paris, Centre Pompidou, Traces du Sacré, May 7, 2008–Aug. 11, 2008, no cat. no. p. 92-93, 441; Munich, Haus der Kunst, Sep. 19, 2008–Jan. 11, 2009.
• Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Akseli Gallen-Kallela: In the Wilderness, Jan. 31–Apr. 13, 2009, no cat. no., p. 102-03; Sweden, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, May 16–August 23, 2009; Stavabger, Norway, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Sep. 3–Nov. 22, 2009.
• Helsinki Art Museum, Askeli Gallen-Kallela. Une passion finlandaise. Überirdisch Nordisch Askeli Gallen-Kallela Finnland Im Gesit Der Moderne, Sep. 22, 2011–Jan. 15, 2012, cat. 43; Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Feb. 7–May 6, 2012; Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, June 2, 2012–Sep. 9, 2012, cat. 43.
• Buffalo, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Mystic North: Burchfield, Sibelius, & Nature, Sep. 11, 2015 – Jan. 31, 2016, no cat.

• Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Kallela-Kirja: iltapuhdejutelmia, 2nd ed. (Porvoo : Söderström, 1955), 224–225.
• Gallen-Kallela Museum, Gallen-Kallelan Tarvaspää Museo-Opas Vandring Genom Museet Museum Guide (Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, 1962), n.p.
• Akseli Gallen-Kallelan julistetaide (Lahti: Lahden kaupunki, 1980), n.p.
• Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Sanan ja tunteen voimalla : Akseli Gallen-Kallelan kirjeitä ( A Self-Portrait in Words – The Letters of Akseli Gallen-Kallela), Juha Ilvas ed. (Helsinki: Valtion taidemuseo, 1996), 122–23, 143, 164–69.
• Rodolphe Rapetti, “Gallen-Kallela et le symbolism international. L’exemmple d’Ad Astra,” in L’Horizon inconnu: l’art en Finlande 1870–1920, Riitta Ojanperä ed. (Helsinki: Musées de Strasbourg, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 1999), 49 fig. 4, 50-58.
• Janne Gallen-Kallela-Sirén, Axel Gallén-and the Constructed Nation: Art and Nationalism in Young Finland 1880–1900 (Ph.D. diss. New York University, 2001), 385–394, 426.
• Janne Gallen-Kallela-Sirén, Minä palaan jalanjäljilleni: Akseli Gallen-Kallelan elämä ja taide (Otava, 2001), 186–222.
• Joe Martin Hill, “Inventing Finland,” Art in America 95, 3 (March 2007), 145–53, 188.
• Nina Kokkinen, “The Art of Mystification: Esotericism Differentiated in the Definition of Finnish Symbolism,” in Western Esotericism: Based on Papers Read at the Symposium on Western Esotericism Held at Åbo, Finland, on 15–17 August 2007, Tore Ahlbäck ed. (Åbo, Finland: Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History, 2007), 98-111.
• Laura Gutman-Hanhivaara, "Gallen-Kallela, Ad Astra," in Alfred Pacquement, Jean de Loisy and Angela Lampe, Traces du sacré, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2008), 92.
• Lin Stafne-Pfisterer, “Edvard Munch und Axel Gallen in Berlin 1895,” in Akseli Gallen-Kallela & Berlin (Espoo, Finland: Gallen-Kallela Museum und Autoren, 2014), 54–69, 179–81.
• Juha-Heikki Tihinen, “Berlin und Die Darstellung der Modernen Sexualitä à la Axel Gallén & Co.,” in Akseli Gallen-Kallela & Berlin (Espoo, Finland: Gallen-Kallela Museum und Autoren, 2014), 82–93, 182–183.

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