Les Baux by Loren MacIver
Art Institute of Chicago

Les Baux

Loren MacIver · 1952

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, by Jan. 1953 [verso label and documentation in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 14, 1953.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Loren MacIver, I. Rice Pereira, Jan. 8–Mar. 1, 1953, cat. 56; Des Moines Art Center, Mar. 16–Apr. 19, 1953; San Francisco Museum of American Art, May 4–June 4, 1953; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, June 21–July 12, 1953.
  • The Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings: MacIver, Nov. 4–Dec. 1, 1953, cat. 12
  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nature in Abstraction, Jan. 14–Mar. 16, 1958, no cat. no.
  • Venice, XXXI Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Venezia, June 16–Oct. 7, 1962, cat. 17 (cat. 18 in 2 Pittori, 2 Sculptori)
  • Washington DC, The White House, The White House Festival of The Arts, June 14 (extended to June 15), 1965, cat. 25; Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, The White House Festival of the Arts Foundation, June 19–July 11, 1965.

Literature

Published references

  • John I. H. Baur, Loren MacIver, I. Rice Pereira, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1953), 33, 35, cat. 56.
  • James Fitzsimmons, Two Women in a Double Retrospective at The Whitney, The Art Digest, 27, no. 8 (Jan. 15, 1953): 7.
  • “Recent Additions to the Twentieth Century Collections,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly XLIX, (Apr. 1 1955), 24.
  • John I. H. Baur, Nature in Abstraction: The Relationship of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth Century American Art (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1958), 6, 20 (ill.).
  • Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 263.
  • Biennale di Venezia, Catalogo della XXXI Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Venezia, exh. cat. (Venice: Ente Autonomo "La Biennale di Venezia,” 1962), 219, cat. 17.
  • XXXI Biennale, Venezia 1962 Stati Uniti d’America 2 Pittori, 2 Sculptori (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1962), n.p., cat. 18.
  • John I. H. Baur, ed., New Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1957), 259 (ill.)
  • Vincent Price, The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art (Waukesha, WI: Country Beautiful Corp., 1972), 276 (color ill.).

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