
Flesh (Smaller Than Tears Are the Little Blue Flowers)
Ivan Albright · 1928
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>33rd Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity</em>, Feb. 7–Mar. 10, 1929, cat. 4, ill.
- Chicago, Stevens Hotel, <em>The Chicago Society of Artists, Autumn Exhibition</em>, Nov. 17–Dec. 1, 1929, cat. 2.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Paintings by George and Martin Baer and Ivan Le Lorraine Albright</em>, July 13–Oct. 11, 1931, no. 11.
- Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, <em>The 139th Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture</em>, Jan. 23–Feb. 27, 1944, cat. 66, as <em>Smaller Than Tears are the Little Blue Flowers</em>.
- Whitney Museum, <em>1944 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting</em>, Nov. 14–Dec. 12, 1944, cat. 1, as <em>Smaller Than Tears are the Little Blue Flowers</em>.
- New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, <em>First Joint Exhibition: The Albright Twins</em>, Oct. 22–Nov. 10, 1945, cat. 10, as <em>Smaller Than Tears are the Little Blue Flowers</em>.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition</em>, Oct. 30–Dec. 27, 1964; Whitney Museum, Feb. 3–Mar. 21, 1965, cat. 2 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6728/ivan-albright-1978"><em>Works from the Collection by Ivan Albright</em></a>, Oct. 21–Dec. 10, 1978, cat. 5.
- Chicago, Richard L. Feigen Gallery, <em>Ivan Albright</em>, Sept. 9–Oct. 15, 1988.
- New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, <em>Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art Revisited</em>, Oct. 14–Nov. 8, 1989, cat. p. 39, ill.; Phyllis Kind, Chicago, Dec. 1, 1989–Jan. 9, 1990.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Ivan Albright: Magic Realist</em>, Feb. 20–May 11, 1997; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 10–Sept. 7, 1997.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Flesh: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, May 4–Aug. 5, 2018, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Works by Ivan L. Albright from the Collection</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), cat. 5.
- Sarah Kelly Oehler, ed., <em>Ivan Albright Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2019), <a href="https://www.artic.edu/digitalalbright">https://www.artic.edu/digitalalbright</a>, cat. 5 (ill.).
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