
Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Tsugouharu Foujita · 1922
Provenance
Ownership history
- Commissioned by Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, Washington, DC and Stone Ridge, NY, 1922 [Birnbaum 2006]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 12, 1952.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Foujita, Nov. 8–28, 1930, n.p., cat. 19, as Portrait.
- Tokyo, The Asahi Shimbun, Retrospective Léonard Foujita: A Retrospective Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of his Death, July 31–Oct. 8, 2018, cat. 31; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 19–Dec. 16, 2018.
- Washington D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939, Apr. 26, 2024-Feb. 23, 2025, cat. 30; Louisville, KY, Speed Art Museum, Mar. 29, 2025-June 22, 2025; Athens, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, July 19-Oct. 12, 2025 (extended to Nov. 2, 2025).
Literature
Published references
- Michel-G. Vaucaire, Foujita (Paris: Les Éditions G. Cres et Cie, 1926), n.p. (ill.), as Le Portrait de Madame C . . .
- Reinhardt Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Foujita, exh. cat. (New York: Reinhardt Galleries, 1930), n.p., cat. 19, as Portrait.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 163, as Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1922.
- A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 42, no. 1G7, as Portrait of Mrs. E. C. Chadbourne, 1922.
- Jean Selz, Foujita (New York: Crown Publishers, 1981), pp. 38 (ill.), 96, as Portrait of Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1922.
- Sylvie Buisson and Dominique Buisson, La vie et l’oeuvre de Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita (Paris: ACR Edition, 1987), pp. 77 (ill.), 364 (ill., no. 22.08), as Portrait d’Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1922.
- Phyllis Birnbaum, Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita-the Artist Caught between East and West (New York: Farber and Farber, 2006), 108-111, opp. 206 (ill.), as Portrait of Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1922.
- Robyn Asleson, Zakiya R. Adair, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Samuel N. Dorf, and Tirza True Latimer, Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900-1939, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024), 10-11, 90-91, cat. 30 (color ill.) 92, 94.
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