Blue Rafters by Frederic Clay Bartlett
Art Institute of Chicago

Blue Rafters

Frederic Clay Bartlett · c. 1916

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, Chicago; by exchange to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1919; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1919.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Rochester, NY, Memorial Art Gallery, <em>Paintings by Frederic Clay Bartlett</em>, Oct. 1917, cat. 44 [pamphlet only].
  • Cincinnati Art Museum, <em>Special Exhibition of Paintings by Frederic Clay Bartlett</em>, Feb. 1918,, cat. 17 [pamphlet only].
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4938/paintings-by-frederic-clay-bartlett"><em>Exhibition of Paintings by Frederic Clay Bartlett</em></a>, Jan. 7–Feb. 6, 1919, cat. 11 [downloadable pamphlet available].
  • Detroit, MI, Michigan State Fair, Aug. 26, 1921.
  • Kansas City, MO, Nov. 8, 1921.
  • McKee, AL, Feb. 24–Apr. 10, 1925.
  • Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 2.
  • Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5706/garfield-park-art-galleries-exhibition-of-greek-sculptures-and-american-paintings"><em>Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago</em></a>, Nov. 5, 1935–Mar. 3, 1936, cat.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6036/art-in-illinois-in-honor-of-the-illinois-sesquicentennial"><em>Art in Illinois: In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial</em></a>, June 15–Sept. 8, 1968, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
  • Springfield, IL, Illinois State Museum, <em>Painters and Sculptors of Illinois</em>, Oct. 30–Dec. 12, 1971, no cat.; Champaign, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, Feb. 6-Feb. 27, 1972; Peoria, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Mar. 10–Apr. 16, 1972; Chicago Historical Society, Apr. 26–June 24, 1972.
  • St. Louis Art Museum, <em>Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820–1940</em>, Feb. 18–Apr. 10, 1977, cat. 91.
  • Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, <em>Chicago Modern, 1893–1945: Pursuit of the New</em>, July 17, 2004–Oct. 31, 2004, cat. 9.

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 126, cat. 436.
  • Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 2.
  • Robert J. Dunham, <em>Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Chicago Park District, 1935), n.p., cat.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 17.
  • Judith A. Barter and Lynn Springer, <em>Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820–1940</em>, exh. cat. (St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum, 1977), 139, cat. 91 (ill.).
  • Elizabeth Kennedy, ed., <em>Chicago Modern, 1893–1945: Pursuit of the New</em>, exh. cat. (Terra Museum of American Art, 2004), 22, 28, cat. 9 (ill.).

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