Study for 1939 New York World's Fair Mural, Hall of Medical Science

1. The artist, 1938–39, to at least 1974 [Bolotowsky 1974, 37]; sold through the Washburn Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Washburn Gallery, <em>WPA</em>, Mar. 13–Apr. 13, 1974, no cat. no.
• New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, <em>Ilya Bolotowsky</em>, Sept. 20–Nov. 11, 1974, cat. 5.
• New York, Washburn Gallery, <em>American Abstract Painting from the 1930s and 1940s</em>, Sept. 9–Oct. 2, 1976.
• Munich, Haus der Kunst, <em>Amerikanische Malerei, 1930–1980 [American Painting, 1930–1980]</em>, Nov. 14, 1981–Jan. 31, 1982, cat., as <em>Oil Study for Mural for Health Building, Hall of Medical Science, New York World's Fair</em>.
• Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, <em>Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1927–1944</em>, Nov. 5–Dec. 31, 1981, cat. 13; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jan. 26–Mar. 25, 1984; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Apr. 15–June 3, 1984; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, June 28–Sept. 9, 1984.
• New York, Jewish Museum, <em>Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900–1945</em>, May 16–Sept. 29, 1991, cat. 20, as <em>Study for New York's World's Fair Mural, Hall of Medical Science</em>.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1952/america-after-the-fall-painting-in-the-1930s"><em>America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s</em></a>, June 5–Sept. 18, 2016, cat. 6; Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Oct. 15, 2016–Jan. 30, 2017; London, Royal Academy, Feb. 25–June 4, 2017.
• Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 59.
• Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, <em>Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural</em>, Feb. 5–May 22, 2022.

• Ilya Bolotowsky et al., <em>Ilya Bolotowsky</em>, exh. cat. (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1974), 37, cat. 5 (ill.), as <em>Oil Study for Mural for Health Building, Hall of Medical Science, New York World's Fair</em>.
• Washburn Gallery, <em>WPA</em>, exh. cat. (Wasburn Gallery, 1974), n.p. (ill.), as <em>Model for New York World's Fair Mural, Hall of Medical Science</em>.
• Deborah Rosenthal, "American Abstraction," <em>Arts Magazine</em> 51, no. 4 (Dec. 1976): 9 (ill.), as <em>Final Study for New York World's Fair Mural, Hall of Medical Science</em>.
• Tom Armstrong and Bernd Growe, <em>Amerikanische Malerei, 1930–1980 [American Painting, 1930–1980]</em>, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1981), 92, fig. 85 (ill.), as <em>Oil Study for Mural for Health Building, Hall of Medical Science, New York World's Fair</em>.
• John R. Lane and Susan C. Larsen, <em>Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1927–1944</em>, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1983), cat. 13.
• Normal L. Kleeblatt and Susan Chevlowe, eds., <em>Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900–1945: A Tribute to the Educational Alliance Art School</em>, exh. cat. (Jewish Museum, 1991), 77, cat. 20, pl. 5 (ill.), as <em>Study for New York's World's Fair Mural, Hall of Medical Science</em>.
• 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), 34, 260–262, cat. 125 (ill.).
• Jody Patterson, "Modernism and Murals at the 1939 New York World's Fair", <em>American Art</em> 24, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 50, 55–56, 58–59 (mural ill.)
• Judith A. Barter, ed., <em>America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 79, cat. 6 (ill.).
• Yang Zhigang, ed., <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 59.

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