Art Institute of Chicago

My Backyard

Torvalt Arnt Hoyer · 1940

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist (died 1949), Chicago; by descent to his daughter, Olga Pegelow-Mazur (born Hoyer), Chicago, from 1949; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7209/american-paintings-and-sculpture-51st-annual">The Fifty-first Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture</a>, Nov. 14, 1940–Jan. 5, 1941, cat. 105.
Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, Seventeenth Annual Exhibition, 1941, cat. 43a.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8818/the-room-of-chicago-art-paintings-by-t-a-hoyer-and-julia-thecla">The Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by T.A.Hoyer and Julia Thecla</a>, Sept. 23–Oct. 28, 1943, no cat.
Illinois Arts Council, 200 Years of Illinois Art Biennial Series: Naive Art in Illinois, 1830–1976; traveled to Peoria, IL, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences,Illinois Landcape Art, 1830-1976, Feb. 29-Mar. 28, 1976; Normal, IL, Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Illinois Art at 1976, A Bicentennial Invitational, June 6-July 25, 1976; Springfield, Illinois State Museum, The Emergence of Modernism in Illinois, 1914-1904, Sept. 12-Oct. 24, 1976; cat. 13 (ill.), as Backyard Scene.

Literature

Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty-first Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1940), cat. 105.
Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, Seventeenth Annual Exhibition, exh. cat. (Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, 1941), 11, cat. 43a.
Joshua B. Kind, Naive Art in Illinois, 1830–1976, exh. cat. (Illinois Arts Council, 1976), cat. 13 (ill.), as Backyard Scene.

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