
Art Institute of Chicago
Kneeling Figure
Robert Laurent · Modeled 1935, cast by 1938
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, New York and Maine [incoming receipt, R6691, Oct. 20, 1938; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1938.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5894/american-paintings-and-sculpture-49th-annual"><em>Forty–Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture</em></a>, Oct. 20–Dec. 4, 1938, cat. 280 (awarded the Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Art Institute Medal).
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6310/american-exhibition-50th-annual-half-a-century-of-american-art-1888-1938"><em>Half a Century of American Art</em></a>, Nov. 16, 1939–Jan. 7, 1940, cat. 207.
- Chicago, Michael Reese Hospital, Nov. 1955–June 1, 1956.
- ME, Portland Museum of Art, <em>A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach</em>, May 26–Sept. 8, 2017, cat. 55; TN, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Oct. 14, 2017–Jan. 7, 2018; Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 17–May 13, 2018.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Catalogue of the Forty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1938), n.p., cat. 280 (ill.).
- Daniel Catton Rich, <em>Half a Century of American Art</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1939), 58, cat. 207, pl. 77 (ill.).
- Andrew J. Eschelbacher, ed., <em>A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach</em>, exh. cat. (Portland Museum of Art, 2017), cat. 55.
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