
Art Institute of Chicago
The Children's Lunch
Alexander Brook · 1928
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5461/american-paintings-and-sculpture-42nd-annual"><em>Forty–Second Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture</em></a>, Oct. 24–Dec. 8, 1929, cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5626/a-century-of-progress-loan-exhibition-of-paintings-and-sculpture-1933"><em>A Century of Progress</em></a>, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/3355/a-century-of-progress-loan-exhibition-of-art-for-1934"><em>A Century of Progress</em></a>, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat.
- Carnegie Institute, Mar–May, 1934.
- Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, <em>American Painting and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries</em>, Jan. 29–Feb. 19, 1935, cat.
- Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire Museum, Aug–Sept. 1941.
- Muskegon, MI, Hackley Art Gallery, Nov. 4–29, 1950.
- Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, June 15–Sept. 15, 1953.
- OH, Dayton Art Institute, Apr. 6–May 1, 1955.
- WI, Milwaukee Art Center, Oct. 31, 1959–Feb. 14, 1960.
- New York, Gallery of Modern Art, <em>The Twenties Revisited</em>, June 29–Sept. 5, 1965.
- New York, American Federation of Arts, <em>American Still–Life Painting, 1913–1967</em>, Feb. 23, 1967, cat.; IA, Cedar Rapids Art Center, Oct. 6–27, 1967; Binghamton, NY, Roberson Memorial Center, Nov. 10–Dec. 1, 1967; WV, Huntington Galleries, Dec. 15, 1967–Jan 5, 1968; ME, Portland Museum of Art, Jan. 19–Feb. 9, 1968; MI, Enos A. and Sarah DeWaters Art Center, Flint Institute of Arts, Feb. 23–Mar. 15, 1968; OH, Mansfield Fine Arts Center, Mar. 29–Apr. 19, 1968; PA, Allentown Art Museum, May 8–29, 1968; MI, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, June 7–28, 1968; Ithaca, NY, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, July 12–Aug. 2, 1968; Knoxville, TN, Dulin Gallery of Art, Sept. 20–Oct. 10, 1968; College Park, College of Arts and Crafts, University of Maryland, Oct. 24–Nov. 14, 1968.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Catalogue of the Forty-Second Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1929, n.p., cat. 30 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Catalogue of a Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Lent from American Collections</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), 68, cat. 519, pl. XC (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Catalogue of a Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934</em> exh. cat. (Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), 74, cat. 543.
- Arthur Everett Austin and Henry-Russell Hitchcock, <em>American Painting and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th & 20th Centuries</em>, exh. cat. (Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1935), cat. 43.
- William H. Gerdts, <em>American Still-Life Painting, 1913–1967</em>, exh. cat. (American Federation of Arts, 1967, cat. 3.
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