Spring Rains by Victor Higgins
Art Institute of Chicago

Spring Rains

Victor Higgins · c. 1924

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, Taos, NM; partially sold and partially exchanged for <em>The Pumpkin Girl</em> (formerly sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), Jan. 29, 1924; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art<em>Centennial Exhibition</em>, Oct. 17–Nov. 15, 1925, cat. 250; New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Dec. 1, 1925–Jan. 3, 1926 (organized by the National Academy of Design).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5626/a-century-of-progress-loan-exhibition-of-paintings-and-sculpture-1933"><em>A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture</em></a>, May 23–Oct. 31, 1933, cat. 563.
  • IN, South Bend Art Association, <em>American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries</em>, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948, cat. 29, as <em>Spring Rain</em>.
  • Chicago, University Club, long term loan, 1954–1981.
  • Phoenix Art Museum, <em>Victor Higgins: an American Master</em>, Dec. 14, 1990–Feb. 10, 1991, cat.; Cody, WY, Buffalo Bill Center, Mar. 1–May 17, 1991; South Bend, IN, University of Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art, June 6–Sept. 22, 1991; Tulsa, Gilcrease Museum, Oct. 20–Dec. 29, 1991; Los Angeles, Autry Museum, Jan. 26–Mar. 14, 1992; Indianapolis, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Apr. 7–May 31, 1992.
  • Tulsa, Gilcrease Museum, <em>Taos Artists and Their Patrons</em>, May 16–July 18, 1999, cat.; South Bend, IN, University of Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art, Aug. 15–Nov. 14, 1999; Phoenix Art Museum, Dec. 11, 1999–Mar. 12, 2000; Albuquerque Museum, Apr. 16–July 16, 2000; San Antonio, McNay Art Museum, Aug. 13–Nov. 12, 2000 (Phoenix, Albuquerque, and San Antonio only).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2838/window-on-the-west-chicago-and-the-art-of-the-new-frontier-1890-1940"><em>Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940</em></a>, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003, cat. 49.

Literature

Published references

  • National Academy of Design, <em>Centennial Exhibition, National Academy of Design, 1825–1925</em>, exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1925), 12, 26, 153, cat. 250.
  • Robert B. Harshe, <em>Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), 71, cat. 563.
  • James Murray Haddow, <em>American Painting in the Manner of the Late Ninteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries</em>, exh. cat. (South Bend Art Association, 1948), n.p., cat. 29, as <em>Spring Rain</em>.
  • Judith A. Barter, <em>Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), ii, 67, 68, 133, cat. 49, fig. 31 (ill.).

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