
Art Institute of Chicago
Pieta
Alfeo Faggi · Modeled 1931, cast 1932
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, Woodstock, NY; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1932.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Exhibition of Religious Art by Artists of Chicago and Environs, Mar. 24–Apr. 15, 1931, cat. 60. (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5607/american-paintings-and-sculpture-45th-annual"><em>Forty–Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture</em></a,>, Oct. 27, 1932–Jan. 2, 1933, cat. 233.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/3355/a-century-of-progress-loan-exhibition-of-art-for-1934"><em>A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture</em></a>, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 755.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6310/american-exhibition-50th-annual-half-a-century-of-american-art-1888-1938"><em>Half a Century of American Art</em></a>, Nov. 16, 1939–Jan. 7, 1940, cat. 190.
- Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Sculpture and Drawings by Alfeo Faggi, Feb. 26–Mar. 26, 1941.
- Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Alfeo Faggi, Mar. 14–Apr. 2, 1946, cat. 29.
Literature
Published references
- C.J. Bulliet, "Apples and Madonnas: Emotional Expression in Modern Art" (Chicago, 1927) p. 222.
- C.J. Bulliet, "Apples and Madonnas: Emotional Expression in Modern Art" (Chicago, 1930) p. 238.
- Guy Edlinton, "Reaching for Art" (Boston, 1931) p. 123 (ill.).
- Robert B. Harshe, <em>Catalogue of the Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), n.p., cat. 233.
- Daniel Catton Rich, "Three Pieces of Modern Sculpture," <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 28, no. 5 (Sept.–Oct. 1934): 63–66 (ill.).
- Robert B. Harshe, <em>Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), 88, cat. 755.
- Daniel Catton Rich, <em>Half a Century of American Art</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1939), 54, cat. 190, pl. 76 (ill.).
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