At the Hippodrome by Gifford Beal
Art Institute of Chicago

At the Hippodrome

Gifford Beal · 1915

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Mr. Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932) and Mrs. Carrie Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, by 1923; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, National Academy of Design, <em>Ninetieth Annual Exhibition</em>, Mar. 20–Apr. 25, 1915, cat. 336.
  • Buffalo, NY, Albright Art Gallery, <em>The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Tenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists</em>, May 22–Aug. 30, 1915, cat. 8.
  • Detroit Museum of Art, <em>Exhibition of Works by Twelve American Painters</em>, April 1916, cat. 31.
  • Rochester, NY, The Memorial Art Gallery, <em>Paintings by Twelve Contemporary American Artists</em>, May 1916, cat. 1.
  • Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, <em>Sixth Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists</em>, Dec. 17, 1916–Jan. 21, 1917, cat. 262.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Thirtieth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture</em>, Nov. 8, 1917–Jan. 2, 1918, cat. 6, as <em>Spotlight</em>.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Seven Special Exhibitions: Sculpture by Jo Davidson, Paintings by Guy Wiggins, Charles H. Woodbury, Alfred Juergens, John H. and Anna Lee Stacey, Gifford Beal, W. Elmer Schofield and Eugene Speicher, Paintings and Pastels by William Penhallow Henderson</em>, Dec. 17, 1920–Jan. 18, 1921, cat. 5, as <em>Hippodrome</em>.
  • Detroit Institute of Arts, <em>Exhibition of Paintings by Gifford Beal, Eugene Speicher, and Elmer W. Schofield</em>, Apr. 1–18, 1921, cat. 8.
  • The Renaissance Society, <em>The University of Chicago, American Oil Paintings and French Watercolors</em>, Feb. 6–Mar. 1, 1929.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture</em>, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 503, as <em>The Spotlight</em>.
  • Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 42, as <em>Spotlight</em>.

Literature

Published references

  • Florence Barlow Ruthrauff, "In the Field of Art," <em>The Spur</em> 15, 8 (April, 1915): 30 (ill.).
  • Eugen Neuhaus, <em>Painters, Pictures and the People</em> (Philopolis Press, 1918), pl. 22.
  • Robert B. Harshe, <em>A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 163, cat. 2163, as <em>Spotlight</em>, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/s2hxd115k60">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/s2hxd115k60</a>.
  • <em>Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 19, as <em>Spotlight (At the Hippodrome)</em>.
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 84, as <em>At the Hippodrome (Spotlight)</em>.
  • Yang Zhigang, ed., <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 42, as <em>Spotlight</em>.

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