Art Institute of Chicago

Study for "Victory"

Evelyn Beatrice Longman · Modeled 1903; cast 1906

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist; plaster given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1905 [Twenty-Seventh Annual Report 1906, 52]; cast by Jules Berchem for the Art Institute of Chicago, 1906.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4316/american-paintings-and-sculpture-18th-annual">Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists</a>, Oct. 19-Nov. 26, 1905, cat. 393 [plaster cast].
New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917, Sept. 6, 2024–Jan. 5, 2025, cat. 94.

Literature

Published references

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of the Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1905), cat. 393 [plaster cast].
"List of Acquistions to the Museum, June 1, 1905 to June 1, 1906," Twenty-Seventh Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 1906), 52.
William M. R. French, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects (Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), 82, cat. 987, as Study for Statue of Victory, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nnc1.ar00002402">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nnc1.ar00002402</a>.
William M. R. French, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 80, cat. 987, as Study for Statue of Victory, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w"> https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w</a>.
William M. R. French, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 83, cat. 987, as Study for Statue of Victory, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.fl3r4m">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.fl3r4m</a>.
George William Eggers, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part I: Architecture and Sculpture, vol. 1 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 83, cat. 987, as Victory, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952</a>.
Mark D. Mitchell, et al., The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917, exh. cat. (Yale University Art Gallery, 2024), 244–45, cat. 94 (ill.).

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