Portrait of Mary Block
Ivan Albright · 1955–57
Provenance
Ownership history
- Commissioned by Leigh (1905–1987) and Mary Block (1905–1981), Chicago, 1955/57; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>The Artist Looks at People</em>, Nov. 13, 1958–Jan. 11, 1959, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Ivan Albright Retrospective Exhibition</em>, Oct. 30–Dec. 27, 1964; New York, Whitney Museum, Feb. 3–Mar. 21, 1965, cat. 39, ill. p. 51.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6728/ivan-albright-1978"><em>Works from the Collection by Ivan Albright</em></a>, Oct. 21–Dec. 10, 1978, cat. 28.
- Evanston, Terra Museum of American Art, <em>Woman</em>, Feb. 18–Apr. 22, 1984.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Ivan Albright: Magic Realist</em>, Feb. 20–May 11, 1997; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 10–Sept. 7, 1997.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Flesh: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, May 4–Aug. 5, 2018, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Works by Ivan L. Albright from the Collection</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), cat. 28.
- Sarah Kelly Oehler, ed., <em>Ivan Albright Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2019), <a href="https://www.artic.edu/digitalalbright">https://www.artic.edu/digitalalbright</a>, cat. 20 (ill.).
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