
Art Institute of Chicago
City Landscape
Joan Mitchell · 1955
Provenance
Ownership history
- Stable Gallery, New York, by 1958; sold to the Art Institute, 1958.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Vanguard 1955: A Painter’s Selection of New American Paintings, Oct. 23–Dec. 5, 1955, cat. 39 (incorrectly titled Painting).
- Art Institute of Chicago, 18th Annual Society for Contemporary American Art Exhibition, May 8–June 8, 1958, cat. 23.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, 26th Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art, Apr. 8–May 10, 1966, no cat. no.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois, In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, June 15–Sept. 8, 1968, no cat. no.
- Washington, D. C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Joan Mitchell, Feb. 27–May 1, 1988, no cat. no.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 26–July 17, 1988; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Sept. 17–Nov. 6, 1988; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Dec. 2, 1988–Jan. 29, 1989; Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Feb. 26–Apr. 23, 1989.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Twelve Contemporary Masters, May 10–June 14, 1992, no cat. no.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Paintings of Joan Mitchell, June 20–Sept. 29, 2002; cat. 6; Birmingham Museum of Art, June 27–Aug. 31, 2003; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Sept. 21, 2003–Jan. 7, 2004; Des Moines Art Center, Jan. 31–Apr. 25, 2004, (New York, Birmingham, and Fort Worth only).
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Sept. 13-Dec. 13, 2020 (Delayed to Mar. 6-Aug. 14, 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic); Joan Mitchell: Fierce Beauty, no cat. no., pl. 14; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jan. 9-Apr. 4, 2021 (Delayed to Sept. 4, 2021-Jan. 17, 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic); New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Apr. 30-Sept. 8, 2021 (Venue cancelled); Paris, Fondation Louis Vuiton, Oct. 3, 2021-Feb. 13, 2022 (Delayed to Oct. 5, 2022-Fe. 27, 2023 due to COVID-19 pandemic).
Literature
Published references
- Walker Art Center, Vanguard 1955: A Painter’s Selection of New American Paintings, exh. cat. (Walker Art Center, 1955), n.pag., cat. 39 (ill., incorrectly titled Painting).
- Art Institute of Chicago, 18th Annual Society for Contemporary American Art Exhibition, exh. checklist (Society for Contemporary Art, 1958), n.pag., cat. 23.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 315.
- Art Institute of Chicago, 26th Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art, exh. cat. (Society for Contemporary Art, 1966), n.pag. (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois, In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, exh. checklist (Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), p. 8.
- Franz Schulze, Society for Contemporary Art The Art Institute of Chicago: 1940-1980, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1980), pp. 24 (ill.); 26; 31 (ill.); 51 (ill.).
- Judith E. Bernstock, Joan Mitchell, exh. cat. (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 1988) pp. 31; 32 (color ill.); 33; 35.
- Dennis Adrian, From America’s Studio: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Two Exhibitions of Works by Alumni 125th Annniversary Exhibition, exh. cat. (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), p. 61.
- Michel Waldberg, Joan Mitchell (Éditions de la Différence, 1992), p. 16.
- James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Hudson Hills Press, 1996), p. 107 (color ill.).
- Robert Miller Gallery, Joan Mitchell: Paintings 1956 to 1958, exh. cat. (New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 1996), n.pag.
- Klaus Kertess, Joan Mitchell (Harry N. Abrams, 1997), pp. 180, 181.
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