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Portrait of a Man
Benjamin West · 1790–99
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1916; sold by to the Friends of American Art, Chicago, and presented to the Art Institute, 1916 [Day Book 7, p. 126, Registrar’s office]; transferred to the Byron L. Smith Collection, 1918 [Day Book 8, p. 145, Registrar’s office].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Stockholm, Sweden, Kungl Akademien för de Fria Konsterna, <em>Utställning av Amerikansk Konst i Stockholm [Exhibition of American Art in Stockholm]</em>, Mar. 15–Apr. 7, 1930, cat. 110, as<em>Porträtt</em>; Copenhagen, Denmark, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, <em>Udstilling af Amerikanst Konst I København [Exhibition of American Art in Copenhagen]</em>, May 3–22, 1930; Munich, Germany, <em>Ausstellung Americanischer Kunst [Exhibition of American Art]</em>, June–July, 1930 (organized by the American Scandinavian Foundation).
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Benjamin West: 1738–1820, 1938, no. 42.
- Urbana, University of Illinois (Illini Union Building), on loan, 1941–51.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Architecture (Chicago, 1917), p. 153, no. 432.
- Frederic Fairchild Sherman, “The Art of Benjamin West,” Art in America 6 (April 1918), pp. 156, 157, ill.
- Ehrich Galleries, One Hundred Early American Paintings (New York, 1918), p. 154, ill.
- Friends of American Art, Sixth Year Book (Chicago, 1918), p. 27, ill.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago, 1920), p. 55, no. 557.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago, 1922), p. 59, no. 557.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago, 1923), p. 59, no. 557.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), pp. 82, ill., 157, no. 557.
- Russell Walton Thorpe, “Benjamin West,” Antiquarian 7 (November 1926), p. 41, ill.
- Kungl Akademien för de Fria Konsterna, <em>Utställning av Amerikansk Konst i Stockholm [Exhibition of American Art in Stockholm</em>, exh. cat. (Kungl Akademien för de Fria Konsterna, 1930), 30, cat. 110 (ill.), as<em>Porträtt</em>.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), pp. 102, ill., 176.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 481.
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