Construction after the Enjoyment of a Mulberry Tree

1. Harry Bertoia (1915–1978), Barto, PA, 1953 [incoming receipt, RX1374, Oct. 18, 1954; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1954.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Sixty–First Annual Exhibition of American Artists</em>, Oct. 21–Dec. 3, 1954, cat. 12.
• Chicago, Fairweather Harding Gallery, <em>Harry Bertoia</em>, Dec. 1956.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Sculpture by Harry Bertoia</em>, June 26-July 20, 1975, no cat.
• Dallas, TX, Nasher Sculpture Center, <em>Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life</em>, Jan. 29–Apr. 24, 2022, cat. 44 (ill.).

• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Sixty–First Annual Exhibition of American Artists</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1954), cat. 12.
• Anthony Kerrigan, “Crónica de Norteamérica,”<em>Goya: Revista de Arte</em> 5 (Mar.-Apr. 1955)278, fig. 6 (ill).
• “Recent Additions to the Twentieth Century Collection,” <em>The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly</em> 49, 2 (Apr. 1, 1955): 24.
• Edith Weigle, "Stone Gives up to Metal in Sculpture" <em>Chicago Tribune</em> (Dec. 16, 1956): G4.
• “Bertoia Exhibition,”<em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 69, 4 (July-Aug. 1975): 11 (ill.).
• Nancy Schiffer and Val O. Bertoia, <em>The World of Bertoia</em>, (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub, 2003), 67 (ill.).
• Jed Morse and Martin R. Sullivan, <em>Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life</em>, exh. cat. (Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess in association with Nasher Sculpture Center, 2022), cat. 44 (ill.).

Prototype Chair

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Diamond" Chair

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled (#912)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled (#1577)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

God the Father with Four Angels

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wilton Album, folio 10a: Priapus and Lotis

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Armchair

Art Institute of Chicago

Composition in Green and Brown

Art Institute of Chicago

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