Art Institute of Chicago

Swing Music (Louis Armstrong)

Arthur Dove · 1938

Provenance

Ownership history

Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York; bequeathed through Georgia O'Keeffe to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

New York, An American Place, Arthur G. Dove: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1938, Mar. 29–May 10, 1938.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, One Hundred and Thirty–Fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1939.
New York, An American Place, Arthur G. Dove: Exhibition of Oils and Temperas, Apr. 10–May 17, 1939.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Painting, June 13–July 14, 1940.
Washington DC, Phillips Collection, Arthur Dove: A retrospective, Sept. 20, 1997–Jan. 4, 1998; Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan. 15–Apr. 12, 1998; Addison Gallery of American Art, Apr. 25–July 12, 1998; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Aug. 2–Oct. 4, 1998.
Washington, DC, Hirshhorm Museum and Scultpure Garden, Visual Music, 1900–2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Feb. 13–May 22, 2005, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 23–Sept. 11, 2005 (Washington, DC only).
Art Institute of Chicago, America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, June 5–Sept. 18, 2016; Paris, Musee de l'Orangerie, Oct. 15, 2016–Jan. 30, 2017; London, Royal Academy, Feb. 25–June 4, 2017, cat. 15.

Literature

Ann Lee Morgan, "Arthur Dove: Life and Work with Catalogue Raisonne" (Associated University Press, 1984).
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), cat. 77. 117.

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