
Art Institute of Chicago
Relief
Charles Green Shaw · 1937
Provenance
Ownership history
- Collection of the artist; bequeathed to Charles H. Carpenter, New Canaan, CT, 1974; [Washburn Gallery, New York, c. 1974–2006]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Washburn Gallery, Reliefs by Charles G. Shaw, Jan. 5–Feb. 3, 1979, n.p., ill.
- Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Beyond the Plane: Constructions in America, 1930–65, Oct. 8, 1983–Jan. 2, 1984, cat. 43, fig. 46; University of Maryland Art Gallery, Jan. 26–Mar. 18, 1984, and Detroit Institute of the Arts, Apr. 16–June 11, 1984.
- New York, Washburn Gallery, Charles G. Shaw: Biomorphic Dimensions, Nov. 1–26, 1988, n.p., ill.
Literature
Published references
- Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005–2006), 22.
- Eric Gibson, "New York Letter: Charles G. Shaw," Art International 23, 1 (April 1979), 48, ill.
- Buck Pennington, "The 'Floating World' in the Twenties: The Jazz Age and Charles Green Shaw" Archives of American Art Journal 20, 4 (1980), 17–24, ill. p. 23.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 114.
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