Spring by Charles Demuth
Art Institute of Chicago

Spring

Charles Demuth · 1921

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. With C. Phillip Boyer, New York, by 1947; sold to Karl Nierendorf (1889–1947), New York, by 1947; Estate of Karl Nierendorf (possessed by New York State), 1947; sold to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1948; consigned to Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1979; private collection, 1982; consigned to Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1989; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Daniel Gallery, Recent Paintings by Charles Demuth, Dec. 1(?), 1922–Jan. 2, 1923, cat. 8.
  • New York, An American Place, Charles Demuth: Retrospective Exhibition Including Latest Work–Watercolors–Drawings–Oil Paintings, Apr. 14–May 11, 1931, no cat.
  • New York, Egan Gallery, 12 Works of Distinction, 1946, no cat.
  • Charleston, SC, Carolina Art Association, Gibbes Art Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Extended Loan Program, 1953–1961, Dec. 7, 1953 –Sept. 20, 1954, no cat.; Salt Lake City, UT, Westminster College, Nov. 16, 1954–June 8, 1955; Lexington, KY, University of Kentucky, Sept. 6, 1955–Apr. 3, 1956; Bozeman, MT, Montana State University, Aug. 29, 1956–Mar. 25, 1957; Charlotte, NC, The Mint Museum, Sept. 17, 1957–Apr. 9, 1958; Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University Dec. 19, 1958–Apr. 20, 1959; Burlington, VT, University of Vermont, Jan. 6–June 6, 1960; Talledega, AL, Talledega College, Dec. 13, 1960–June 16, 1961.
  • Santa Barbara, The Art Galleries, University of California, Charles Demuth: The Mechanical Encrusted on the Living, Oct. 5–Nov. 14, 1971, cat. 30 (ill.); Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, Nov. 22, 1971–Jan. 3, 1972; Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, Jan. 19–Feb. 29, 1972; Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Mar. 19–Apr. 16, 1972.
  • Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Pennsylvania Academy Moderns 1910–1940, May 9–July 6,1975, cat. 21 (ill.); Philadelphia, Peale House, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, July 30–Sept. 6, 1975.
  • New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, American Art from the Gallery’s Collection, Oct. 4–25, 1980, cat. 80 (ill.).
  • New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Lines of Different Character: American Art from 1727 to 1947, Nov. 13, 1982–Jan. 4, 1983, cat. 71 (ill.).
  • New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Modern Times: Aspects of American Art, 1907–1956, Nov. 1–Dec. 6, 1986, cat. 23 (ill.).
  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Charles Demuth, Oct. 15, 1987–Jan. 17, 1988, no cat. no (ill.); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 25–Apr. 24, 1988; Columbus Museum of Art, May 8–July 10, 1988; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Aug. 4–Octo 2, 1988.
  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York, Nov. 20, 1996–Mar. 2, 1997, no cat. no. (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • “Random Impressions in Current Exhibitions,” New York Tribune, Dec. 24, 1922: 7–8.
  • Emily Farnham, “Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works” (PhD diss., Ohio State University, 1959), 108, 109, 451.
  • Emily Farnham, Charles Demuth: Behind a Laughing Mask, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971, 120–21, 201.
  • Alvord L. Eiseman, “A Charles Demuth Retrospective Exhibition,” Art Journal 31, no. 3 (1972): 283–84 (ill.).
  • Alvord L. Eiseman, “A Study of the Development of an Artist: Charles Demuth” (PhD diss., New York University, 1976), 309–10 (ill.)
  • Alvord L. Eiseman, Charles Demuth, New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1982, 17, 25 (ill.).
  • Grace Glueck, "Critic's Choices: Best in Entertainment This Holiday Weekend," The New York Times, Nov. 26, 1982, sec. C, 14.
  • William C. Agee, “Charles Demuth,” The New Criterion (June 1988): 44.
  • Charles F. Stuckey, “Selected Recent Acquisitions of Twentieth-Century Art at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Burlington Magazine (Oct. 1993): 727, fig. VIII (ill.)
  • James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996, 47 (ill.)
  • Judith A. Barter, American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2009, 98 (ill.).
  • Lisa Stein, “Seeing Beyond the Must-Sees,” Chicago Tribune, April 18, 2003, sec. 7 (ill).

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