
Art Institute of Chicago
Rainy Day
Frank Weston Benson · 1906
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, Salem, MA; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1910.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Saint Louis Art Museum, <em>2nd Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists</em>, Sept. 26, 1907, cat. 6.
- New York, Montross Gallery, <em>11th Annual Exhibition of Ten American Painters</em>, Mar. 17–Apr. 4, 1908, cat. 3.
- Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, <em>Ten American Painters</em>, Apr. 11–May 3, 1908, cat. 5.
- Cincinnati Art Museum, <em>15th Annual Exhibition of American Art</em>, May 23–July 20, 1908, cat. 239.
- New York, Macbeth Gallery, <em>An Exhibition of Paintings by a Group of Boston Artists</em>, Apr. 16–29, 1909, cat. 1.
- Saint Louis Art Museum, <em>4th Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists</em>, Sept. 12, 1909, cat. 15.
- Boston, St. Botolph Club, <em>Paintings by Frank W. Benson</em>, Jan. 10–29, 1910, cat.12.
- Cincinnati Art Museum, <em>17th Annual Exhibition of American Art</em>, May 21–July 20, 1910, cat. 3.
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, <em>Fourteenth Annual Exhibition</em>, May 2–June 30, cat. 16.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Twenty–third Annual Exhibition of American Art</em>, Oct. 18–Nov. 27, 1910, cat. 19.
- Toledo Museum of Art, <em>The Inaugural Exhibition</em>, Jan. 17–Feb. 12, 1912, cat. 7.
- Washington DC Corcoran Gallery of Art, <em>Paintings, Etchings and Drawings by Frank W. Benson</em>, Mar. 24–Apr. 13, 1921, cat. 26.
Literature
Published references
- “The Autumn Exhibition,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, IV (January 1911), 36, 47 (ill.).
- William H. Downes, “The Spontaneous Gaiety of Frank W. Benson’s Work,” <em>Arts and Decoration</em>, 1 (March 1911), 197 (ill.).
- <em>Friends of American Art Year Book, 1911–1912</em>, 2nd ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1912), 13, 16 (ill.), as <em>A Rainy Day</em>.
- <em>Friends of American Art Year Book, 1912–1913</em>, 3rd ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 15, 18 (ill.), as <em>A Rainy Day</em>.
- William M. R. French, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects in the Museum</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 146, cat. 503, as <em>A Rainy Day</em>, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w"> https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w</a>.
- <em>Friends of American Art Year Book, 1913–1914</em>, 4th ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 17, 20 (ill.), as <em>A Rainy Day</em>.
- William M. R. French, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 152, cat. 503, as <em>A Rainy Day</em>, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.fl3r4m">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.fl3r4m</a>.
- <em>Friends of American Art Year Book, 1914–1915</em>, 5th ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1915), 20, 36 (ill.), as <em>A Rainy Day</em>.
- <em>Friends of American Art Announcement</em> (1919), 1 (ill.).
- George William Eggers, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings</em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 39, cat. 365, as <em>A Rainy Day</em>, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952</a>.
- Francis Hamilton, “Artist’s Homes as They Paint Them,” <em>International Studio</em>, 81, (September 1925), 415 (ill.), 416–17.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 5, as <em>A Rainy Day</em>.
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