The Cloisters by Andrew Wyeth
Art Institute of Chicago

The Cloisters

Andrew Wyeth · 1949

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, Birmingham, PA; sold to Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996), New York, 1949 [Carnegie Institute 1949, no. 170]; sold to Joseph Verner Reed (1902–1973), New York, by 1957 [Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts 1957, no. 23; Meryman 1996, 242]; sold, American Pageant of Fashion and the Arts, New York, Dec. 29, 1963 [on view in Knoedler Gallery, New York, Dec. 1963]. Wildenstein and Co., New York, by June 1966, sold to Helen Regenstein (1896–1982; born Asher, also Mrs. Joseph Regenstein), Chicago, Aug. 1966 [letter from Louis Goldenberg, Wildenstein and Co., to Mrs. Joseph Regenstein, Aug. 1966; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1966.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Institute, Painting in the United States, Oct. 13–Dec. 11, 1949, no. 207, pl. 17.
  • London, England, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Symbolic Realism in American Painting, July 18–Aug. 18, 1950, no. 38.
  • Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art, Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth, July 7–Aug. 4, 1951; Rockland, Maine, The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Aug. 10–Sept. 8, 1951, no. 20, illus.
  • Wilmington, Delaware, the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Andrew Wyeth, Jan. 7–Feb. 3, 1957, no. 23.
  • Buffalo, New York, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Andrew Wyeth, Nov. 2–Dec. 9, 1962, no. 11.
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Andrew Wyeth, Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938 into 1966; Baltimore Museum of Art, Dec. 11, 1966–Jan. 22, 1967; Whitney Museum of American Art, Feb. 6–Apr. 12, 1967; Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 21–June 4, 1967, illus.
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 16–Sept. 6, 1970, no. 13, illus.

Literature

Published references

  • Carnegie Institute, <em>Painting in the United States</em>, exh. cat. (Pittsburg: Carnegie Institution, 1949), cat. 170, plate 17 (ill.).
  • Institute of Contemporary Arts, <em>Symbolic Realism in American Painting, 1940–1950</em>, exh. cat. (London: The Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1950), 11, cat. 38, fig. 15 (ill.).
  • <em>Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth</em>, exh. cat. (Manchester, NH, and Rockland, ME: Currier Gallery and William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1951), 16, cat. 20 (ill.).
  • <em>Andrew Wyeth</em>, pamphlet for exhibition (Delaware: Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, 1957), cat. 23.
  • Ernest W. Watson, “Mood, a chapter from “Composition in Landscape and Still Life,” reprinted in <em>American Artist</em> (Oct. 1959): 33 (ill).
  • <em>Andrew Wyeth: Tempera, Water Colors and Drawings</em>, exh. cat. (Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1962), 9, cat. 11.
  • <em>Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938 into 1960</em>, exh. cat. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1966), (ill.).
  • C.C.C., “Andrew Wyeth Exhibition,” Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago 61, 2 (March 1967): 7 (ill.).
  • “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: October-December, 1966,” <em>The Art Quarterly</em> 30, 1 (1967): 77, 81 (ill.).
  • <em>Andrew Wyeth</em>, exh. cat. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1970), no. 13.
  • Wanda Corn, <em>Andrew Wyeth: The Man, His Art, and His Audience</em> (Ph.D., New York University, Fine Arts, 1974), 103 (ownership mentioned, not illustrated).
  • Jaan Kangilaski, “Cover,” <em>JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association</em> (Jan 5, 1976): cover image, 4 (ill.).

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