
Art Institute of Chicago
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José Clemente Orozco · 1926/28
Provenance
Ownership history
- Juliana Force, New York [according to Shell and McAndrew 1958]. Sold by the Weyhe Gallery, New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, Mar. 28, 1955; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, "José Clemente Orozco: 1883–1949," Jan.–Feb. 1959, n.p.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 206, cat. 153 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Alma Reed, José Clemente Orozco (New York: Delphic Studios, 1932), n. p.
- Alma Reed, Orozco (Oxford University Press, 1956), p. 38.
- Curtis H. Shell and John McAndrew, Catalogue of European and American Sculpture, Paintings, and Drawings at Wellesley College (Wellesley College, 1958), p. 110.
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 206, cat. 153 (ill.).
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