
Art Institute of Chicago
Shop Girls
Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones · c. 1912
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, New York; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1912; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1912.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Carnegie Institute, 16th Annual Carnegie International Exhibition, Apr. 25–June 30, 1912, cat. 287.
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 108th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Feb. 9–Mar. 30, 1913, cat. 116.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 34.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 644.
- Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5706/garfield-park-art-galleries-exhibition-of-greek-sculptures-and-american-paintings"><em>Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago</em></a>, Nov. 5, 1935–Mar. 3, 1936, cat. 19.
- Appleton, Wis., Lawrence College, New Alexander Gymnasium, Loan Exhibition of American Paintings at Lawrence College, Sept. 22–Oct. 4, 1937, no. 13.
- Chicago, Charles A. Stevens Store, Mar. 27–May 27, 1956.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, Bicentennial Exhibition, Apr. 11–Oct. 10, 1976, cat. 419.
Literature
Published references
- 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. 34 (ill.).
- Robert J. Dunham, <em>Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Chicago Park District, 1935), n.p., cat. 19.
- 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), 13, fig. 5 (ill.).
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