Apotheosis by John Graham
Art Institute of Chicago

Apotheosis

John Graham · 1955–57

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by Gallery Mayer, New York, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1960; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Gallery Mayer, "John Graham," 1960, cat. 10.
  • Chicago, Arts Club, "John Graham," 1963-1964, cat. 14; also Minneapolis.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Fantastic Drawings," 1967–1968, no cat.
  • New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "John Graham: Paintings and Drawings," 1968-1970, cat. 25 (ill.); also Athens, Georgia; Grinnell, Iowa; Auburn, Alabama; Houston; San Antonio; Seattle; Chicago; and Hanover, New Hampshire.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Twentieth-Century Drawings from Chicago Collections," 1973, n.p.
  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Twentieth-Century American Art from Friends' Collections," 1977, n.p.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection," 1986, pamphlet no. 29.
  • Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, "John Graham: Artist and Avatar," 1987-1988, cat. 62 (ill.), p. 87; also Purchase, New York; Newport Beach, California; Berkeley; and Chicago,

Literature

Published references

  • Fairfield Porter, "John Graham: Painter as Aristocrat," Art News 59:6 (1960), p. 41 (ill.).
  • Irving Hershel Sandler, "New York Letter," Art International 4:9 (1960), p. 29.
  • Thomas B. Hess, "Eccentric Propositions," in The Grand Eccentrics: Five Centuries of Artists Outside the Main Currents of Art History, edited by Thomas B. Hess, Art News Annual 32 (Oct. 1966), p. 10 (ill.).
  • Jack Kroll, "Beyond the Fringe," Newsweek (Nov. 7, 1966), p. 112 (ill.).
  • Eila Kokkinen, "Ioannus Magus Servus Domini St. Georgii Equitus," Art News 67:5 (1968), p. 66.
  • "Painting: The Eyes Have It," Time (Sept. 13, 1968), p. 72.
  • "An Eccentric Revived: John Graham - Painter of Cross-Eyed Beauties and Mystic Signs," Life 65:14 (1968), p. 52 (ill.).
  • Marcia Epstein Allentuck (editor), John Graham's "System and Dialectics of Art" (Baltimore, 1971), p. 69 (ill.).
  • Barbara Rose, "Arshile Gorky and John Graham: Eastern Exiles in a Western World," Arts Magazine 50:7 (1976), pp. 68 (ill.), 69.
  • Hayden Herrera, "John Graham: Modernist Turns Magus," Arts Magazine 51:2 (1976), p. 104 (ill.).
  • Paul Brach, "John Graham: Brilliant Amateur?," Art in America 75:12 (1987), p. 133 (ill.).
  • Suvan Geer, "A Magus Seeking Enlightenment," Art Week 18:43 (1987), p. 7 (ill.).

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