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Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)
Vasily Kandinsky · 1913
Provenance
Ownership history
- Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859-1920), Chicago, probably purchased from the artist, by 1920; by descent to his wife Lucy O. Eddy (1863-1931) and son Jerome O. Eddy (1891-1951), Chicago, 1920; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Royal Albert Hall, The London Salon of the Allied Artists’ Association, Ltd., July 1913, p. 15, cat. 286.
- Chicago, Art Institute, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, September 19-October 22, 1922, cat. 36 (color ill.).
- Chicago, Art Institute, The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, December 22, 1931-January 17, 1932, cat. 10 (ill.).
- Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, An Exhibition of Literature & Poetry in Painting since 1850, January 24-February 14, 1933, p. 14, cat. 32 (ill.).
- Chicago, Art Institute, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 777, pl. LXXV (ill.).
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cubism and Abstract Art, March 2-April 19, 1936, cat. 103, fig. 52 (ill.).
- Rochester, N.Y., Memorial Art Gallery, Exhibition, November 1-30, 1938.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Expressionism and Related Movements, January 26-February 28, 1939, no cat.
- New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Kandinsky, March 1941, cat. 3.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in Progress: A Survey Prepared for the Fifteenth Anniversary of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May-September 1944, no cat. no., pp. 48 (ill.), 221.
- New York, Museum of Non-Objective Painting, In Memory of Wassily Kandinsky, March 15-May 15, 1945, cat. 23.
- Milwaukee, Art Institute, Exhibition, 1945.
Literature
Published references
- Kandinsky, 1901-1913 (Berlin: Der Sturm, 1913), 8 (ill.).
- The London Salon of the Allied Artists’ Association, Ltd., exh. cat. (London: Allied Artists’ Association, Ltd., 1913), 15, cat. 286.
- Eddy, Arthur Jerome, Cubists and Post-Impressionism (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1914), pp. 124-26, opp. 124 (color ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), cat. 36 (color ill.).
- Grohmann, Will, Wassily Kandinsky, Junge Kunst 42 (Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Bierman, 1924), 12, n. p. (ill.).
- Kandinsky: Jubiläums-Ausstellung zum 60. Geburtstage, exh. cat. (Berlin: Galerie Neumann & Nierendorf, 1926), 9 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), cat. 10 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago Report for the Year 1931 26, 2 (February 1932), 23 (ill.).
- Bulliet, C. J., “The Eddy Gift to Chicago,” Creative Art 10 (March 1932), 213, 216, 218 (ill.).
- Cheney, Sheldon, A Primer of Modern Art (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1932), 161 (ill.), 164-65.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), cat. 777, pl. LXXV (ill.).
- Bulliet, C. J., Art Masterpieces in a Century of Progress Fine Arts Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Sterling North of Chicago, 1933), n. p., ill. 76.
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