
Art Institute of Chicago
Great Walls: Walls of Steel Scraping the Sky
Frederic Clay Bartlett · 1920
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, New York, 1920; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1921.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- “Notes,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 14, no. 8 (Nov. 1920): 101–3, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4115255"> http://www.jstor.org/stable/4115255</a>.
- “Notes,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 15, no. 6 (Nov.–Dec. 1921): 179–83, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4120450">http://www.jstor.org/stable/4120450</a>.
- Frederic Clay Bartlett, “Great Walls,” <em>The American Magazine of Art</em> 13, no. 10 (Oct. 1922): 330 (ill.), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/23938787"> http://www.jstor.org/stable/23938787</a>.
- Robert B. Harshe, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings: Part II: Paintings</em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), 61, cat. 563, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x006053578">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x006053578</a>.
- Robert B. Harshe, <em>A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 126, cat. 563.
- Courtney Graham Donnell, “Frederic Clay and Helen Birch Bartlett: The Collectors,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 12, no. 2 (1986), 85–101, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4115935">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4115935</a>.
- Mary Woolever, “The Burnham Library of Architecture: A History,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 13, no. 2 (1988): 107–17 (ill.), <a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/4115895">https://doi.org/10.2307/4115895</a>.
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