
Art Institute of Chicago
The Fruit Vendor
Rufino Tamayo · 1943
Provenance
Ownership history
- [Pierre Matisse Gallery?]. Elizabeth F. Chapman; bequeathed to the Art Institute in 1981.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Group Exhibition, Oils, Watercolors and Pastels by Nineteen Artists, October 1945, no cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Ancient West Mexico: Art of the Unknown Past," September 5-November 22, 1998, cat. 225, p. 279, fig. 22; also traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 20, 1998-March 29, 1999.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900-1950s," January 30-May 3, 2010 (no catalogue).
Literature
Published references
- Margaret Breuning, "International Group," Art Digest 20 (Oct. 1, 1945), p. 11, ill.
- Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 96.
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