
Art Institute of Chicago
Renganeschi's Saturday Night
John Sloan · 1912
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, New York, with Grand Central Galleries, New York, until 1919 [affixed label]. Mary Otis Jenkins (1860–1944; also Mrs. John E. Jenkins), Chicago, by 1926; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, <em>Fifth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists</em>, Apr. 16–May 31, 1919, cat. 100.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, <em>Paintings by Nineteen Living Artists</em>, Dec. 13, 1929–Jan. 12, 1930, cat. 85, as <em>Renganeschi's</em>.
- Dallas, Fair Park Gallery, <em>1933 Exhibition Showing the Changes in Painting for the Last Hundred Years in Europe and America</em>, Oct. 7–22, 1933, cat. 84, as <em>Renganeschi's</em> (organized by the State Fair of Texas, Art Department).
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>New York Realists, 1900–1914: Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Ernest Lawson, George Bellows, Everett Shinn, Glenn O. Coleman, and Guy Pène du Bois</em>, Feb. 9–Mar. 5, 1937.
- Champaign, University of Illinois, Architecture Building Gallery, <em>American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, Dec. 3–29, 1939, no cat.
- South Bend Art Association, IN, <em>American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries</em>, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948.
- IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, June 10–16, 1957, no. 16.
- 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].
- Washington DC, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, <em>Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their Lives, 1897–1917</em>, Nov. 17, 1995–Mar. 17, 1996.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1399/art-and-appetite-american-painting-culture-and-cuisine"><em>Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine</em></a>, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 63; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014.
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young, <em>Jewel City: Art from San Francisco's Panama–Pacific International Exposition</em>, Oct. 17, 2015–Jan. 10, 2016, cat. 69.
- Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 44.
Literature
Published references
- <em>Paintings by Nineteen Living Artists</em>, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1929), 73, cat. 85, as <em>Renganeschi's</em>.
- <em>Catalogue of the Fifth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists</em>, exh. cat. (Detroit Museum of Art, 1919), 13, cat. 100.
- Edward Alden Jewell, "Contemporary American: Debating Inclusion of Certains Artists in a Show That, However, Has Many Pinnacles," <em>The New York Times</em>, Dec. 22, 1929, X14.
- State Fair of Texas, <em>Illustrated Catalogue, Art Department, State Fair of Texas, 1933: Exhibition Showing the Changes in Painting for the Last Hundred Years in Europe and America</em>, exh. cat. (Dorsey Co., 1933), 24, cat. 84, as <em>Renganeschi's</em>.
- Edward Alden Jewell, "Art by 'Realists' Put on Exhibition," <em>The New York Times</em>, Feb. 10, 1937, 20.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 327–329, no. 173.
- Judith Barter et al., <em>Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 32–33, 125, 192, 226, cat. 63, fig. 18 (ill.).
- David Peters Corbett, "Die Ashcan School: Lebensbilder der New Yorker und ihrer Stadt," in <em>Es war einmal in Amerika – 300 Jahre US-amerikanische Kunst [Once Upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of American Art]</em>, eds. Barbara Schaefer and Anita Hachmann (Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud/Wienand Verlag, 2018), 167, fig. 9 (ill.).
- Yang Zhigang, ed., <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 44.
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