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That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)

Ivan Albright · 1931–41

Provenance

Ownership history

Ivan Albright, from 1941 to 1955; partially exchanged for <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artworks/9535">Heavy the Oar to Him Who Is Tired, Heavy the Coat, Heavy the Sea</a> (then 1949.961, now 1959.12), <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artworks/93811">Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida</a> (then 1947.519, now 1977.34), and <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artworks/93809">Oh God, Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea</a> (then 1941.828, now 1977.32) and sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1938 International Exhibition of Paintings, Oct. 13–Dec. 4, 1938, cat. 2.
Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Seventeenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Mar. 23–May 4, 1941, p. 43, cat. 48.
Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty–Second Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 30, 1941–Jan. 4, 1942, cat. 2, pl. 7.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Dec. 7, 1942–Feb. 22, 1943, no cat. no., as That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, American Realists and Magic Realists, Feb. 10–Mar. 21, 1943, p. 63, cat. 34; Buffalo, Albright Gallery, Apr. 5–May 5; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 1–30; San Francisco Museum of Art, Aug. 23–Sept. 19; Art Gallery of Toronto, Nov. 12–Dec. 19; Cleveland Museum of Art, Jan. 1–29, 1944.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in Progress, May 24–Oct. 8, 1944, 109, 218 (ill.).
New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, The Albright Twins, Oct. 22–Nov. 10, 1945, cat. 1.
Chicago, Associated American Artists Galleries, The Albright Twins First Joint Chicago Exhibition, Mar. 29–Apr. 17, 1946, cat. 2.
London, Tate Gallery, American Painting, June 1–July 31, 1946, p. 9, cat. 1.
Paris, Musée National d’art Moderne, 12 peintres et sculpteurs: Américains contemporains, Apr–June 1953, cat. 3.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950">Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
City Art Museum of St. Louis, 200 Years of American Painting, Apr. 1–May 31, 1964, p. 44 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

Manny Farber, “Artists for Victory: Metropolitan Museum of Art Opens Great Exhibition for American Artists,” Magazine of Art 35, 8 (Dec. 1942): 276–77 (ill.).
A. Hyatt Mayor, "The Artists for Victory Exhibition," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Dec. 1942): 142 (ill.), as That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do.
Edward Alden Jewell, "'Artists for Victory': Metropolitan Opens Tomorrow the Huge American Survey," The New York Times, Dec. 6, 1942, 259, as That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do.
"Record Art Show Has $52,000 Prizes: Artists for Victory Display at Metropolitan Museum Totals 918 Exhibits," The New York Times, Dec. 7, 1942, 30 (ill.), as That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do.
"Metropolitan Opens Artists for Victory Exhibition," New York Herald Tribune, Dec. 8, 1942, as That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do.
Edward Alden Jewell, "Artists for Victory: Afterthoughts on the Huge Nation-Wide Survey at the Metropolitan Museum," The New York Times, Dec. 20, 1942, 150, as That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do.
Alfred M. Frankfurter, "The Artists for Victory Exhibition: The Paintings," Art News 41, 16 (Jan. 1-14, 1943): 9 (ill.), 11, as That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do.
Daniel Catton Rich, “Ivan Le Lorraine Albright: Our Own Jeremiah,” Magazine of Art 36, 2 (Feb. 1943), 49–51 (ill.).
Associated American Artists, The Albright Twins: First Joint Chicago Exhibition, exh. cat. (Associated American Artists, 1946), cat. 2.
Margaret S. Marble [Margaret Sharp], The Lady Forgot (Harper, 1947), 208–209.
Frederick A. Sweet, Ivan Albright: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1964), 34, 37, cat. 18 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Works by Ivan L. Albright from the Collection, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), cat. 12 (ill.).

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