
Art Institute of Chicago
The Golden Wall
Hans Hofmann · 1961
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, 66th Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, January 11–February 10, 1963, cat. 33.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Hans Hofmann, September 11–November 28, 1963, cat. 26, ill.
- Washington, D.C., Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 14, 1976–January 2, 1977, cat. 53, ill.; traveled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, February 4–April 3, 1977.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hans Hofmann, June 20–September 16, 1990, p. 86, color pl. 73; traveled to Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, November, 1990–January, 1991, and Norfolk, Virginia, The Chrysler Museum, February–April, 1991.
Literature
Published references
- Hans Hofmann, Hans Hofmann: With An Introduction by Sam Hunter and Five Essays by Hans Hofmann, (Harry N. Abrams, 1964), color pl. 156.
- Cynthia Goodman, Hans Hofmann, Modern Masters 10, (Abbeville Press, 1986), p. 95, pl. 8.
- William C. Agee, Kenneth Noland: The Circle Paintings 1956-63, exh. cat. (The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1993), p. 26, fig. 17.
- Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, 2nd ed., (Harry N. Abrams, 2000), p. 57, color ill. 3.20.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Art Institute of Chicago/Hudson Hills Press, 1996), color ill.
- James Yohe, ed, Hans Hofmann (Rizzoli, 2002), color ill.
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