Inventions of the Monsters

1. James T. Soby (1906–1979) and Eleanor H. Bruce (born Eleanor Howland, 1905-1999, married, 1938-1952), Farmington, CT, by 1940 [Hartford 1940]. Durlacher Brothers, New York, by May 27, 1943 [letter from Daniel Catton Rich to Durlacher Brothers, May 27, 1943; copy in curatorial object file]; sold by partial exchange to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Renou et Colle, Dali, July 6-30, 1937, no cat.
• Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Paintings in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Thrall Soby, Nov. 1940, no cat.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Paintings, Drawings, Prints: Salvador Dalí, Nov. 19, 1941–Jan. 11, 1942, cat. 33.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, May 23–June 22, 1947, no cat. no.
• Denver Art Museum, The Modern Artist and His World, March 6–April 27, 1949, no cat. no.
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (now Dallas Museum of Art), The Winterbotham Collection of 20th Century Art, Oct. 8–Nov. 6, 1949, no cat.
• Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Reality and Fantasy, 1900-1954, May 23–July 2, 1954, cat. 44.
• New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí 1910-1965, Dec. 18 1965–Feb. 28, 1966, cat. 86
• Rotterdam, Netherlands, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Dalí, Nov. 21, 1970–Jan. 10, 1971, cat. 56.
• Baden-Baden, Germany, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Dalí. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Schmuck, Jan. 29–Apr. 18, 1971, cat. 44.
• Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective 1920–1980, Dec. 18, 1979–Apr. 21, 1980, cat. 249.
• Stuttgart, Germany, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Salvador Dalí, May 12–July 23, 1989, cat. 196; Kunsthaus Zürich, Aug. 18–Oct. 22, 1989; Humlebæk, Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Dec. 16, 1989–Mar. 11, 1990; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, April 13–July 29, 1990.

• James Thrall Soby, Paintings, Drawings, Prints: Salvador Dalí, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1941), 26, 28, 62, cat. 33 (ill), as Inventions of the monsters.
• “Dalí’s Heterosexual Monster Invades Chicago,” Art Digest 18 (Oct. 1943), 13, as Inventions of the Monsters.
• Sydney J. Harris, “It’s Confusing, It’s Amusing—It’s Dali’s Art,” Daily News (Chicago, Oct. 8, 1943), as Inventions of the Monsters.
• “Recent Dalí Canvas at the Art Institute Stirs Mixture of Emotions,” Chicago Tribune (Oct. 9, 1943), 17, as Inventions of the Monsters.
• “Reports of the Departments for 1943,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 38.3 (Mar. 1944), 9, 142 (ill.), as Inventions of the Monsters.
• James Thrall Soby and Museum of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946), 21, 23, 62 (ill.).
• The Winterbotham Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1947), 12, 13 (ill.).
• The Modern Artist and His World, exh. cat. (Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1949), 11 (ill.).
• Juan Antonio Nuño, Salvador Dalí. Con cuartro ilustraciones en color y cuarenta y ocho en negro (Barcelona: Ediciones Omega, 1950), fig. 27.
• “Salvador Dalí, Die Erfindung der Ungeheuer,” Du 11 (Nov. 1952), 34.
• Catalog of Works by Salvador Dalí in Public Museum Collections (Cleveland: Privately printed for the Reynolds-Morse Foundation, 1956 ), 41 (ill.).
• Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 112-113, as Inventions of the Monsters.

Venus de Milo with Drawers

Art Institute of Chicago

A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Dream of Venus) formerly Visions of Eternity

Art Institute of Chicago

Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment

Art Institute of Chicago

The Anthropomorphic Tower

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Desert Landscape)

Art Institute of Chicago

City of Drawers

Art Institute of Chicago

Hidden Faces

Art Institute of Chicago

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