Portrait of Virgil Thomson

1. The artist, New York, to at least 1934 [La Guardia 1934, supp. cat. 3771a; label verso]. Virgil Thomson (1896–1989), New York, by 1963 [Tyler 1963, 83]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1975.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Forum, <em>New York No–Jury Exhibition Salons of America, Inc.</em>, Apr. 9–May 6, 1934, supp. cat. 3771a.
• Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, <em>A Composer's Collection: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Owned by Virgil Thomson</em>, Feb. 12–Mar. 12, 1967, cat. 21, as <em>Virgil Thomson</em>.
• Arts Club of Chicago, <em>Sixty Years on the Arts Club Stage: A Souvenir Exhibition of Portraits</em>, Nov. 17, 1975–Jan. 3, 1976, cat. 110.

• Virgil Thomson, "Portrait of Florine Stettheimer," <em>Americana Fantastica</em> 2, no. 4 (Jan. 1943): 48 (ill).
• Dorothy Dayton, "Before Designing Stage Settings She Painted Composer's Portrait, Then Florine Stettheimer Translated the Portrait into the Settings of Virgil Thomson's Opera," <em>The New York Sun</em>, Mar. 24, 1934, 15.
• Fiorello H. La Guardia, <em>New York No-Jury Exhibition Salons of America, Inc.</em>, exh. cat. (Salons of America, 1934), n.p., supp. cat. 3771a.
• Parker Tyler, <em>Florine Stettheimer: A Life in Art</em> (Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963), 51–52, 55–58, 72–73, 83, 122 (ill.).
• Virgil Thomson, <em>Virgil Thomson</em> (Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), 136.
• Arts Club of Chicago, <em>Sixty Years on the Arts Club Stage: A Souvenir Exhibition of Portraits</em>, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1975), 60, cat. 110 (ill.).
• David Harris, “The Original ‘Four Saints in Three Acts’,” <em>The Drama Review,</em> 26, no. 1 (Spring 1982), 106–7.
• Clark S. Marlor, <em>The Salons of America 1922–1936</em> (Sound View Press, 1991), 208.
• Barbara J. Bloemink, “Friends and Family: Portraiture in the World of Florine Stettheimer,” in <em>Friends and Family: Portraiture in the World of Florine Stettheimer</em>, ed. Barbara J. Bloemink, exh. cat. (Katonah Museum of Art, 1993), 16.
• Renate Stendhal, ed. <em>Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures: A Photobiography</em> (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994), 153 (ill.).
• Barbara J. Bloemink, <em>The Life and Art of Florine Stettheimer</em> (Yale University, 1995), 188, 190–91, 198, fig. 108 (ill.).
• James N. Wood and T. J. Edelstein, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 62 (ill.).

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