American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)

1. The artist; sold through Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, to Fred (1912–1994) and Marcia Simon Weisman (1918–1991), Los Angeles, Dec. 3, 1968 [invoice; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Paul Kantor, Malibu, Feb. 8, 1971 [invoice; copy in curatorial object file]. Sold to Barthold von Ribbentrop (1940–2019), New York, Düsseldorf, later Ratingen, Germany, probably by 1981 [Glozer, 1981]; William Beadleston Inc., New York, by 1983 [email from Michael Findlay, Nov. 21, 2016; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 16, 1984.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Andre Emmerich Gallery, David Hockney, Apr. 26-May 15, 1969, no cat.
• London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Paintings, prints, and drawings, 1960–1970, April 2-May 3, 1970, cat. 68.3; Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, May 22-June 21, 1970; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, July 25–Aug. 29, 1970; Belgrade, Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, Sept. 18–Oct. 15, 1970, as American Collectors.
• Cologne, Cologne Trade Fair, Rheinhallen, Zeitgenossische Kunst seit, 1939, May 30–Aug. 16, 1981, cat. 745.
• New York, Beadleston Gallery, David Hockney in America, Nov. 8-Dec, 10, 1983, cat. 12, as American Collectors.
• Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, David Hockney: A Retrospective, Feb. 4-Apr. 24, 1988, no cat. no.; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 11-Aug. 14, 1988; London, Tate Gallery, Oct. 26, 1988-Jan. 3, 1989.
• Bonn, Germany, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik, Exciting Times Are Ahead, June 1–Sept. 23, 2001, no cat. no.; Humlebæk, Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, as David Hockney: Maleri 1960-2000, Oct. 12, 2001–Jan. 27, 2002, cat. 21, as American Collectors (Humlebæk only).
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, David Hockney: Portraits, Feb. 26–May 14, 2006, cat. 17; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 11-Sept. 4, 2006; London, National Portrait Gallery, Oct. 12, 2006–Jan. 21, 2007.
• London, Tate Britain, David Hockney, Feb. 9–May 29, 2017, no cat. no.; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, June 19–Oct. 23, 2017; New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nov. 20, 2017–Feb. 25, 2018.

• Mark Glazebrook, Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, 1960-1970, exh. cat. (Boston: Boston Book and Art, 1970), 16, cat. 68.3, as American Collectors, 74, cat. 68.3 (ill.), as American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman).
• Nikos Stangos, ed. and Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney: My Early Years, (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1977), 18, 150, 156, fig. 191 (color ill.), 157, 301, fig 191.
• California Suite (film), directed by Herbert Ross (Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures, 1978), opening credits (color ill.).
• Laszlo Glozer, Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, (Cologne: DuMont, 1981), 282 (color ill.), 469, cat. 745 (ill.).
• Christopher Finch, David Hockney in America, exh. cat. (New York: William Beadleston, 1983), n.p., cat. 12 (color ill.), as American Collectors.
• Julia Brown and Bridget Johnson, The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections, 1940-1980, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1983), 120, as The California Collectors.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1984-1985 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), 23, pl. 11 (color ill.).
• Maurice Tuchman and Stephanie Barron, David Hockney: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988), 36, fig. 21 (color ill.), 37, 253.
• Larry Silver, Art in History (New York: Abbeville Press, 1993), 462, fig. 10.39 (color ill.), as American Collectors.
• Paul Melia and Ulrich Luckhardt, David Hockney, Paintings (Munich: Prestel, 1994): 60, pl. 30, 102, 103, pl. 30 (color ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, News and Events, Members’ Magazine (May/June 1997): cover (color ill.).
• Kay Heymer, Didier Ottinger, Paul Melia, Marco Livingstone, and Caroline Hancock, Exciting times are ahead, exh. cat. (Leipzig, Germany: E.A. Seemann, 2001), 114, 228.

Sunday Morning, Mayflower Hotel, N.Y.

Art Institute of Chicago

Inland Sea, Japan

Art Institute of Chicago

The Old Guitarist, from The Blue Guitar

Art Institute of Chicago

Telephone Pole, Los Angeles, California

Art Institute of Chicago

What Is This Picasso?, from The Blue Guitar

Art Institute of Chicago

A Picture of Ourselves, from The Blue Guitar

Art Institute of Chicago

Figures with Still Life, from The Blue Guitar

Art Institute of Chicago

Gonzalez and Shadow

Art Institute of Chicago

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