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Peter Cain · 1992–93
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist; sold through Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 19, 2016.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993 Biennial Exhibition, Feb. 24–June 30, 1993, no cat. no.
- New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Summer Group Exhibition: Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, John Chamberlain, Katharina Fritsch, Andreas Gursky, Roni Horn, Gary Hume, Andy Warhol, July 7-28, 1995, no cat.
- Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, 25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Sept. 8–Nov. 5, 1995, cat. 9.
- New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Peter Cain: More Courage and Less Oil, Oct. 5–Nov. 23, 2002, cat. 11.
- New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, Feb. 6– June 1, 2013, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- Elisabeth Sussman, Thelma Golden, John G. Hanhardt, and Lisa Phillips, 1993 Biennial Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993), 277.
- Dean Sobel, 25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, exh. cat. (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1995), 29, cat. 9.
- James Auer, "Art Museum Exhibit Embraces Pluralism." Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, September 10, 1995, n.p. (color ill.).
- Maxwell Anderson, et al., 2000 Biennial Exhibition (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000), 25 (ill., installation).
- Carroll Dunham and Bob Nickas, Peter Cain: More Courage and Less Oil, exh. cat. (New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2002), n.p., pl. 11 (color ill., installation), n.p., fig. 11 (ill.), n.p. cat. 11.
- Jerry Saltz, “Carpe Diem,” The Village Voice, Oct. 23, 2002, 67 (ill.).
- Christian Viveros-Faune. "Peter Cain." New York Press, Nov. 13, 2002, 31 (color ill.).
- Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Jenny Moore, and Margot Norton, eds. NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, exh. cat. (New York: New Museum, 2013), 29 (color ill.).
- Beau Rutland, Richard Meyer, and Collier Schorr, Peter Cain (New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2017), 27, 68, 69 (color ill), 129, 131, fig. 22 (color ill., installation).
- Carroll Dunham, "Head Over Wheels: On Peter Cain." Reprinted in Paul Chan and Scott Rothkopf, eds. Into Words: The Selected Writings of Carroll Dunham (New York: Badlands Unlimited, 2017), 5 (ill.).
Comparables
Related holdings by the same hand
[Postcards Addressed to Walker Evans and Filed by the Artist with his Collection of Postcards]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cain Slaying Abel
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Family of Cain
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Figure Studies: Three Sketches of Cain Killing Abel, with an Altar of Sacrifice at Center, Two Standing Women, a Hand, and a Seated Child with a Squirrel
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seal Impression, Saint Margaret
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Christ and the Woman of Samaria
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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