Art Institute of Chicago

London Wedding

Arnold Rönnebeck · c. 1924

Provenance

Ownership history

Weyhe Gallery, New York; sold to John N. Stern, Winnetka, IL, from about 1980 to 2004; sold by Stern through Conner-Rosencranz to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2004.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Weyhe Gallery, New York, Sculpture, Drawings and Lithographs by Arnold Rönnebeck, Apr. 27–May 16, 1925, cat. 11, as London Wedding (cast unknown, possibly AIC).
Western Association Museum Directors (organizers), Exhibition of Paintings, Wood Carvings and Bronzes by Arnold Ronnebeck and Warren Wheelock, shown at Memphis, Tenn., Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Oct. 1–31, 1926, cat. 6, as London Wedding (cast unknown, possibly AIC).
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Robert Laurent and the American Figurative Sculpture: Selections from the John N. Stern Collection and The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Oct. 4–Dec. 11, 1994, cat. 40, fig. 29, as Man and Woman Descending the Stairs (A Wedding Couple).

Literature

“Art: Three Sculptors Who Have Recently Exhibited Their Work in New York,” Vogue 65, 11 (June 1, 1925), 67, ill., as "London Wedding."
Reba White Williams, The Weyhe Gallery Between the Wars, 1919–1940 (Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1996), 232, 484, 494 (cast in general).
"Acquisitions," <em>Annual Report, 2004–2005</em> (Art Insitute of Chicago, June 2005), 16.
Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 77. 46.

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