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Landscape with Two Poplars
Vasily Kandinsky · 1912
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold to Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859-1920), Chicago, 1913 [this and the following according to statement by Vivian Endicott Barnett, June 2011; copy in curatorial file]; 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
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 779, as Two Poplars.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cubism and Abstract Art, Mar. 2–Apr. 19, 1936, cat. 102.
- New York, Museum of Non-Objective Paintings, In Memory of Wassily Kandinsky, Mar. 15–May 15, 1945.
- Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Wassily Kandinsky Memorial Exhibition, Nov. 2–30, 1945.
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1946, Apr. 11-May 12, 1946.
- Minneapolis, MN, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, German Expressionism in Art, 1905–1935, Oct. 23–Nov 27, 1950.
- Columbus, OH, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, German Expressionism, Feb. 9-Mar. 9, 1961.
- Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, April 20–May 29, 1994; traveled to Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994, and Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6–September 25, 1994.
- Madrid, Fundacion Juan March, Oct. 11, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020, cat. 80; Málaga, Museo Picasso Málaga, Feb. 26, 2020-May 31, 2020.
Literature
Published references
- Manuel Fontán Del Junco, José Lebrero Stals, María Zozaya Álvarez, ed., Astritt Schmidt-Burkhardt, Uwe Fleckner, Eugenio Carmona, Manuel Lima, Genealogies of Art, or The History of Art as Visual Art, exh. cat. (, 2020), 188, 189 (color ill.), 457, cat. 80.
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