
Art Institute of Chicago
Head of War (Study for Meade Memorial)
Charles Grafly · 1921
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, Philadelphia; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, <em>119th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts</em>, Feb. 3–Mar. 23, 1924, cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Thirty–Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture</em>, Oct. 30–Dec, 14, 1924, cat. 256, (awarded the Mrs. Keith Spaulding Purchase Prize).
- Philadelphia, Sesqui–centennial Exhibition Association, <em>Sesquicenennial International Exposition</em>, May 31–Nov. 30, 1926, cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections</em>, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat.
- KS, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, <em>The Human Figure in American Art</em>, Jan. 21, 1995–Mar. 17, 1996, cat.
- New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, <em>The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917</em>, Sept. 6, 2024–Jan. 5, 2025, cat. 89.
Literature
Published references
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, <em>Catalogue of the 119th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1924).
- “Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 18, no. 8 (Nov. 1924): 104-105 (ill.).
- <em>Catalogue of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and
- Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1924), n.p., cat. 256 (ill.).
- National Academy of Design, <em>Centennial Exhibition, National Academy of Design, 1825–1925</em>, exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1925), 25, 64, 152, cat. 378 (ill.), as <em>Study for Figure of War. Meade Memorial</em>.
- Sesqui-centennial Exhibition Association, <em>The Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia, June First to December First, 1926</em>, exh. cat. (Sesqui-centennial Exhibition Association, 1926), 83, cat. 1138 (ill.).
- <em>Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), 108, cat. 1137.
- Pamela Simpson, <em>The Sculptor's Clay: Charles Grafly, 1862-1929</em>, exh. cat. (Wichita, KS: Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, 1995).
- Mark D. Mitchell, et al., <em>The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917</em>, exh. cat. (Yale University Art Gallery, 2024), 236, cat. 89 (ill.).
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