The Earth Is a Man

1. The artist; sold through Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford, Radnor PA, 1942 [McBride 1942]. Sold through Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, to William Rubin, New York, by 1958 [New York 1958]; sold to Richard Feigen, Chicago, by 1963 [Chicago 1984, pp. 14-17; Chicago 1963]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro, River Forest, IL by 1963 [Chicago 1963]; given to Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Matta. Oils, Pencils and Paintings, Mar. 31–Apr. 21, 1942, cat. 8.
• New York, Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, First Papers of Surrealism, Oct. 14–Nov. 7, 1942, no cat.
• Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Matta Echaurren, Jan. 4–29, 1944, cat. 27 (as The Earth is Man).
• San Francisco Museum of Art, 6 Latin American Painters, 1946 (as La tierra es el hombre), no cat.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Matta, Sept. 10–Oct. 20, 1957, cat. 7; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Nov. 15–Dec. 30, 1957; Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Jan. 18–Mar. 2, 1958.
• New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, X Years of Janis, Sept. 28–Nov 1, 1958, cat. 42.
• Chicago, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Matta, Mar. 30–May 11, 1963, cat. 12.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, 50 years of Modern Art, June 15–July 31, 1966, no cat.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage, Mar. 27–June 9, 1968, cat. 214; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 19–Dec 8, 1968.
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Selections From the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, Dec. 20, 1969–Feb. 1, 1970, cat. 52.
• Museen der Stadt Köln, Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, May 30–Aug. 16, 1981.
• Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism, Dec. 1, 1984–Jan. 27, 1985.

• Matta: Oils, Pencils and Paintings, exh. cat. (New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1942), cat. 8.
• Henry McBride, “Matta, at Last,” The New York Sun, Friday, Apr. 3, 1942.
• Matta Echaurren, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1944), cat. 27 (as The Earth is Man).
• William S. Rubin, Matta, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1957), 4; 17 (ill.); 34, cat. 7.
• X Years of Janis, exh. cat. (New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1958), cat. 42 (ill.).
• Matta, exh. cat. (Chicago: Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 1963), cat. 12.
• William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968), pp. 166; 167; fig. 258 (ill.); 238, cat. 214.
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections From the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1969), n.p., cat. 52 (ill).
• André Breton, Surrealism and painting, trans. Simon Watson Taylor (Icon Editions; Harper & Row, 1972), 186 (ill.).
• Miro: In the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art; New York: New York Graphic Society, 1973), 117, fig. 25 (ill.).
• Lionel Abel, “The Surrealists in New York,” Commentary (October 1981), 49.
• Rose Art Museum, Matta: The First Decade, exh. cat. (Waltham, MA: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1982), pp. 12, 22.

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