Art Institute of Chicago
Central Park at Night
George Grosz · 1936
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by the Walker Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1941.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- North Canton, Ohio, The Little Art Gallery, Dec. 1948, no cat.
- New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, “George Grosz,” Feb. 13-Apr. 11, 1954, pp. 25, 27 and 61, cat. 56 (ill.); also Kansas City, Nelson Atkins Museum, May 1-May 31, 1954; Pasadena Art Institute, May-July 25, 1954; and the San Francisco Museum of Art, Aug. 17-Sept. 19, 1954.
- Palm Beach, Fla., The Society of the Four Arts, “Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago,” Jan. 5-27, 1974, cat. 25.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900-1950s," Jan. 30-May 3, 2010, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Birgit Möckel, George Grosz in Amerika 1932-1959 (Frankfurt am Main, 1997), p. 496, no. 217, fig. 39.
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