Art Institute of Chicago

Man of Sorrows

Marion Perkins · 1950

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist, 1950; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 55th Annual Exhibition, Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, May 31–July 8, 1951, cat. 130 (ill.).
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Artists of Chicago, Sept. 14–Oct. 2, 1954, cat. 28; 1020 Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 15–Nov. 15, 1954, cat. 30.
Highland Park, IL, Willet House, Week of Art in Highland Park, Feb. 2–Mar. 1, 1959.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois, In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, June 15– Sept. 8, 1968, checklist only.
Springfield, Illinois, Illinois State Museum, Painters and Sculptors in Illinois: 1820–1945, Oct. 30–Dec. 12, 1971; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, Feb. 6–27, 1972; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, Mar. 10–Apr. 16 1972; Chicago Historical Society, Apr. 26–June 24, 1972, cat. 61 (ill.). Organized by Illinois Arts Council.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Two Centuries of Black American Art, Sept. 30–Oct. 21, 1976, cat. 138 (ill.); High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Jan. 8– Feb. 20, 1977; Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas, Mar. 30,–May 15, 1977; The Brooklyn Museum, June 25–Aug. 21, 1977.
Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Marion Perkins, Feb. 19–Apr. 1, 1979, no cat.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, Art in Chicago, 1945–1995, Nov. 16, 1996–Mar. 23, 1997, cat. 16 (ill.).
Chicago, Spertus Museum, A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 2 Feb–5 June 2009; Allentown Art Museum, Sept. 13, 2009–Jan. 10, 2010; Montclair Art Museum, Feb. 6–July 25, 2010 (Chicago only).
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1567/they-seek-a-city-chicago-and-the-art-of-migration-1910-1950">They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950</a>, Mar. 3–June 3, 2013, cat. 93.

Literature

Published references

C. J. Bullict, "Student Takes Highest Chicago Honors," The Art Digest (June 1, 1951): 12 (ill.).
Marion Perkins, Problems of the Black Artist (Free Black Press, 1971), ill. cover.
Andrew Patner, "Breaking Barriers: A Chicago Artist's Posthumous Acclaim," Chicago Sun-Times, October 24, 1999, 6E (ill.).
Daniel Schulman, “Marion Perkins: A Chicago Sculptor Rediscovered,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), 220–243, figs. 1, 21.
Susan F. Rossen, “Introduction,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), 141.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 170.
Julia Perkins, Michael Flug, and David Lusenhof, eds., "to see reality in a new light": The Art and Activism of Marion Perkins, exh. cat. (Vivian G. Harsh Society and Third World Press, 2013), 28–29 (ill.).
Sarah Kelly Oehler, They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 91–93, cat. 93 (ill.).
Jordan Carter and Sarah Kelly Oehler, "Black Art Matters to This Prominent Museum," interview by Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, June 8, 2020, <a href="https://forbes.com/sites/wendyaltschuler/2020/06/08/black-art-matters-to-this-prominent-museum"> https://forbes.com/sites/wendyaltschuler/2020/06/08/black-art-matters-to-this-prominent-museum</a>.

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