Art Institute of Chicago

My Mother

George Wesley Bellows · March 1921

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist, 1921; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1923.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 118th Annual Exhibition, Feb. 4–Mar. 25, 1923, cat. 65, ill. p. 24.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Department of Fine Arts, An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Lithographs by George Bellows, Feb. 26–Mar. 31, 1923, cat. 34 as Portrait of My Mother. (Probably not AIC version)
Detroit Institute of Arts, Ninth Annual Exhibition, Apr. 11–May 31, 1923, cat. 9 as Portrait of My Mother. (Possibly AIC version)
St. Louis, The City Art Museum, Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, Sept. 15–Oct. 24, 1923, cat. 6, ill. no. 6.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty–sixth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Nov. 1–Dec. 9, 1923, cat. 12 (ill.).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of George Bellows, Oct. 12–Nov. 22, 1925, cat. 44, ill. p. 86, as Portrait of My Mother.
Paris, Galerie de la Chambre Syndicale des Beaux–Arts, The Art Patrons of America Inc., Exhibition of American Art, June 9–July 5, 1926, cat. 8 as Portrait of My Mother. (Possibly not AIC version)
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 432.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 498.
Art Institute of Chicago, George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Jan. 31–Mar. 10, 1946, cat. 46, ill. p. 52.
London, The Tate Gallery, American Painting From the Eighteenth Century to Present Day, Jun–July 1946, cat. 15.
Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, The Artist and His Family, Mar. 3–Apr. 30, 1950, cat. 1.

Literature

Published references

“Illustrations of Acquisitions,” Art Institute of Chicago 45th Annual Report (1923), 65 (ill.).
“The Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, 9 (December, 1923), 102 (ill.).
American Art Annual 20 (The American Federation of Arts, 1923), 24 (ill.).
Emma S. Bellows, The Paintings of George Bellows (Alfred A. Knopf, 1929), pl. 113.
Walter Gutman, “George Bellows,” Art in America 27, 2 (February, 1929),107 (ill.), as Portrait of the Artist’s Mother.
George W. Eggers, George Bellows (American Artists Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1931), 49 (ill.), as Portrait of My Mother (No. 2).
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), 135 (ill.), 136, as Portrait of My Mother.
John Shapley, ed., The Index of Twentieth Century Artists 1, 6 (College Art Association, March 1934), 127.
John Shapley, ed., The Index of Twentieth Century Artists 2, 12 (College Art Association, September 1934), xix.
Harold J. Bailey, "George Bellows’ Painting: My Mother,” The Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 22, 2 (April 1935), 74 (ill.), 75, 78–79.
Josephine Hancock Logan, Sanity in Art (A. Kroch, 1937), 85 (ill.).
“Chicago Art Institute: Its French Exhibit is Tops, Its School Best in Midwest,” Life 11,10 (September 8, 1941), 60 (ill.)

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