Art Institute of Chicago

Joseph Pennell

Wayman Adams · 1917

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1918.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4934/american-oil-paintings-and-sculpture-31st-annual">Thirty–First Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture</a>, Nov. 7, 1918–Jan. 1, 1919, cat. 3 (awarded the Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Medal and Honorable Mention).
New York, Anderson Galleries, Nov. 28–Dec. 27, 1925.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum, May 14–Nov. 8, 1926.
Stockholm, Sweden, Kungl Akademien för de Fria Konsterna, Utställning av Amerikansk Konst i Stockholm [Exhibition of American Art in Stockholm], Mar. 15–Apr. 7, 1930, cat. 1, as Porträtt av Joseph Pennell; Copenhagen, Denmark, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Udstilling af Amerikanst Konst I København [Exhibition of American Art in Copenhagen], May 3–22, 1930; Munich, Germany, Ausstellung Americanischer Kunst [Exhibition of American Art], June–July, 1930 (organized by the American Scandinavian Foundation).
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5626/a-century-of-progress-loan-exhibition-of-paintings-and-sculpture-1933">A Century of Progress</a>, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 494.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6310/american-exhibition-50th-annual-half-a-century-of-american-art-1888-1938">Half a Century of American Art</a>, Nov. 16, 1939–Jan. 7, 1940, cat. 3.
Kalamazoo, MI, Civic Theatre, Paintings from the Friends of American Art Collection, Dec. 27, 1944–Feb. 27, 1945, no cat. (organized by the Kalamazoo Institute of Art).
IN, South Bend Art Association, American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948, cat. 1.
WI, Madison Art Association, Exhibition of Traditional Paintings from the Art Institute, Mar. 1956, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950">Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Mirages of Memory: 200 Years of Indiana Art, Nov. 2, 1976–Feb. 14, 1977.

Literature

Published references

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Thirty-First Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1918), n.p., cat. 3.
Eleanor Jewett, "Art", Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov. 10, 1918, D2.
"Current Exhibitions", Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 12, no. 9 (Dec., 1918): 141–42 (ill.).
Robert B. Harshe, The Art Institute of Chicago: A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 114, 125, cat. 435 (ill.).
Kungl Akademien för de Fria Konsterna, Utställning av Amerikansk Konst i Stockholm [Exhibition of American Art in Stockholm, exh. cat. (Stockholm, Sweden: Kungl Akademien för de Fria Konsterna, 1930), 19, cat. 1 (ill.), as Porträtt av Joseph Pennell.
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of a Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Lent from American Collections, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), 66, cat. 494.
Josephine Hancock Logan, Sanity in Art (A. Kroch, 1937), 83 (ill.).
Daniel Catton Rich, Half a Century of American Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1940), 1, cat. 3.
James Murray Haddow, American Painting in the Manner of the Late Ninteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat. (South Bend Art Association, 1948), n.p., cat. 1.

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