Standing Figure by Marion Perkins
Art Institute of Chicago

Standing Figure

Marion Perkins · Late 1940s

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, late 1940s; sold to William McBride [Schulman 1999]. Susan Woodson Gallery, Chicago, by April 1995 [correspondence between Daniel Schulman and Susan Woodson, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1567/they-seek-a-city-chicago-and-the-art-of-migration-1910-1950"><em>They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950</em></a>, Mar. 3–June 3, 2013, cat. 92.
  • Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, <em>The Time is Now!: Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980</em>, Sept. 13–Dec. 30, 2018, cat. 19.

Literature

Published references

  • Daniel Schulman, “Marion Perkins: A Chicago Sculptor Rediscovered,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 24, no. 2 (1999): 100, fig. 20.
  • Sarah Kelly Oehler, <em>They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 91–93, cat. 92 (ill.).

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