
Art Institute of Chicago
Self-Portrait
Larry Rivers · 1953
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by the artist to Vincent Melzac, Washington, D. C. [according to New York 1976]. B. C. Holland, Chicago. Robert A Rowan, Pasadena, c. 1961. Sold by Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1966.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, "Paintings and Drawings by Larry Rivers," 1953.
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Vassar College, "Centennial Loan Exhibition: Drawings and Watercolors from Alumnae and Their Families," 1961, cat. 147.
- Pasadena Art Museum, "Larry Rivers," 1965, hors cat..
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Larry Rivers: Drawings," 1970, cat. 40.
- New York, Columbia University, "Modern Portraits: The Self & Others," pp. 137 and 196, cat. 102 (ill.); shown only at Wildenstein and Company, New York, Oct. 20–Nov. 28, 1976.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Universal Limited Art Editions: Larry Rivers," Jan.-May 1986, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- J. A. Schinneller, Art: Search and Self-Discovery (1975), p. 352 (ill.).
- Larry Rivers and C. Brightman, Drawings and Digressions (1979), p. 20 (ill.).
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, fig. 330, pg. 376.
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