
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Dance at Insane Asylum
George Wesley Bellows · 1907
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, to Mrs. Emma Bellows, to at least 1936 [Chicago 1936 exh. cat.]. Sold by Frederick Keppel and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1936.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Water Color Club, Fifth Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition, Dec. 2-28, 1907, cat. 725.
- New York, Frederick Keppel and Company, "Drawings by George W. Bellows," Oct. 1936, checklist no. 14.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings by George Wesley Bellows, lent by Mrs. Emma S. Bellows," Dec. 22, 1936-Jan. 27, 1937, checklist no. 18.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Modern Drawings," 1944, pp. 57 and 88 (ill.).
- Washington D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, "Drawings and Lithographs by George Bellows," 1945, cat. 10.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings and Prints," Jan. 31-Mar. 10, 1946, cat. 63, p. 66 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, pp. 8-9, cat. 2, pl. XXXVI.
- New York, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, "Exhibition of American Drawings," Dec. 4-12, 1953, cat. 87.
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "George Bellows: A Retrospective Exhibition," Jan. 19-Feb. 24, 1957, cat. 69, p. 100 (ill.).
- Wilmington, Delaware Art Center, "The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910," Jan. 9-Feb. 21, 1960, cat. 4.
- New York, National Academy of Design, "A Century and a Half of American Art," Oct. 15-Nov. 30, 1975.
- New York, The American Federation of Arts, "American Master Drawings and Watercolors: Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present," Sept. 1976-Apr. 1977.
Literature
Published references
- Harper’s Weekly (August 23, 1913) (ill.).
- Aline Kistler, “Bellows Drawings,” American Magazine of Art, 29:39 (1936), pp. 744-45 (ill.).
- Jaines W. Lane, “Notes from New York,” Apollo 24, p. 294 (ill.).
- Ann Brewer, “A First Showing of Some Bellows Drawings,” Art News 35 (1936), p. 16 (ill.).
- Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection (Lakeside Press, 1938), cat. 102.
- Peyton Boswell, Geroge Bellows (Crown, 1942), p. 24.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “Bellows Revalued,” Magazine of Art 39:4 (April 1946), pp. 140 (ill.), 141.
- I. Moskowitz (editor), Great Drawings of All Time 4 (Shorewood Press, 1962), no. 1017.
- Charles H. Morgan, Geroge Bellows: Painter of America (Reynal, 1965), p. 309 (ill.).
- Donald Braider, George Bellows and the Ashcan School of Painting (Doubleday, 1971), p. 37.
- Paul Cummings, American Drawings: The Twentieth Century (Viking Press, 1976), p. 59 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 14.
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