
Art Institute of Chicago
Mount Equinox, Winter
Rockwell Kent · 1921
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in 1923; given by her to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1923.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Eighth Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Dec. 18, 1921–Jan. 22, 1922, cat. 238.
- Detroit, Mich., Detroit Institute of Arts, Eighth Annual Exhibition, Apr. 11–May 31, 1922, cat. 74, ill.
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Rockwell Kent: Exhibition of Paintings, c. Jan. 1924, cat. 27.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 578.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 608.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Juliana Force and American Art, Sept. 24–Oct. 30, 1949, cat. 67.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
- Brunswick, Me., Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Rockwell Kent: The Early Years, Aug. 15–Oct. 5, 1969, cat. 38, ill. 38.
- Santa Barbara, Ca., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, “An Enkindled Eye”: The Paintings of Rockwell Kent, a Retrospective Exhibition, June 28–Sept. 1, 1985, pp. 67 (ill.), 10, cat. 40; Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art, Oct. 12–Nov. 13, 1985, Portland Art Museum, Jan. 21–Mar. 2, 1986, and Syracuse, New York, Everson Museum of Art, Apr. 11–May 18, 1986.
Literature
Published references
- “Mrs. Whitney’s Gift,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, 5 (May 1923), 50–51 ill.
- The American Magazine of Art 15, 8 (August 1924), 433 ill.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 112 (ill.), cat. 573.
- Rockwell Kent and Carl Zigrosser, Rockwellkentiana (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933), frontispiece (color ill.), as Vermont Winter.
- Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting (Harvard University Press, 1936), 210, fig. 183.
- University Club of Chicago, “Seventy–Six,” University Club Newsletter 6, 12 (December 1951), 2.
- Rockwell Kent, It’s Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1955), 351, as Deer Season.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 251.
- David Traxel, An American Saga: The Life and Times of Rockwell Kent (Harper and Row, 1980), 123, as Deer Season.
- Avis Berman, Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art (Atheneum, 1990), 193.
- Jake Milgram Wien, Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern, exh. cat. (Hudson Hills Press/Portland museum of Art, 2005), 61.
- 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. 34.
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