
Art Institute of Chicago
Silver Sun
Arthur Dove · 1929
Provenance
Ownership history
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York; bequeathed through Georgia O'Keeffe to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, S. M. Kootz Gallery, Modern American Painters, 1930, pl. 16.
- New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Pioneers of Modern Art in America, Apr. 9–May 19, 1946, cat. 40.
- San Francisco Museum of Art, Arthur Dove, Nov. 20, 1974–Jan. 5, 1975, p. 41 (ill.); Buffalo, Albright–Knox Gallery, Jan. 27–Mar. 2; St. Louis Art Museum, Apr. 3–May 27; Art Institute of Chicago, July 12–Aug. 31; Des Moines Art Center, Sept. 22–Nov. 2; New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nov. 27, 1975–Jan. 18, 1976.
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Personal Intensity: Artists in Spite of the Mainsteam, Oct. 10–Dec. 22, 1991.
- Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago; Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994, Yokohama Museum of Art Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.
- Washington DC, Phillips Collection, Arthur Dove: A Retrospective, Sept. 20, 1997–Jan. 4, 1998; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan. 15–Apr. 12, 1998, Andover, Mass., Addison Gallery of American Art, Apr. 25–July 12, 1998, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Aug. 2–Oct. 4, 1998.
Literature
Published references
- Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 129.
- “Arthur Dove Exhibition,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 69 (July/Aug. 1975), ill.
- Ann Lee Morgan, "Arthur Dove: Life and Work with Catalogue Raisonne" (Associated University Press, 1984).
- Jonathan Stuhlman et. al., "Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction," exh. cat. (Hudson HIlls Press, 2007) p. 29 (ill.).
- 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. 77. 65.
- Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection, (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2017) p. 114.
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