The Puff of Smoke

1. The artist, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1912.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Twenty–fifth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture</em>, Nov. 5–Dec. 8, 1912, cat. 10 (ill.) (awarded Honorable Mention).
• Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 3.
• San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, <em>Exhibition of Paintings: Collection of the Friends of American Art</em>, June 26–July 26, 1926, cat. 1.
• Minneapolis Institute of Art, Oct–Nov. 1926, no cat.
• Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5706/garfield-park-art-galleries-exhibition-of-greek-sculptures-and-american-paintings"><em>Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago</em></a>, Nov. 5, 1935–Mar. 3, 1936, cat. 3, as <em>Puff of Smoke</em>.
• Champaign, University of Illinois, Architecture Building Gallery, <em>American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, Dec. 3–29, 1939, no cat.
• IN, South Bend Art Association, <em>American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries</em>, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948, cat. 3.
• New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters, <em>Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Gifford Beal, 1879–1956</em>, Dec. 14, 1956–Feb. 15, 1957, cat. 12.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
• Washington, DC, Phillips Collection, <em>Gifford Beal: Paintings and Watercolors</em>, Sept. 18–Oct. 31, 1971 cat. 3 (ill.); Montclair Art Museum, Jan. 9–Feb. 13, 1972.

• James William Pattison, “Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Art Institute, Chicago,” <em>Fine Arts Journal</em> 27, 6 (December, 1912), 793 (ill.), 796.
• Giselle D’Unger, “Chicago,” <em>American Art News</em> 11, 10 (December, 1912), 8.
• “The Exhibition of American Art,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 6, 3 (January, 1913), 34.
• “Accessions to the Museum,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 6, 3 (January, 1913), 46.
• “Friends of American Art,” <em>Art and Progress</em> 4, 4 (February, 1913), 880.
• <em>Friends of American Art Yearbook, 1912–1913</em>, 3rd ed. (1913), 16, 19 (ill.).
• <em>Friends of American Art Yearbook, 1913–1914</em>, 4th ed. (1914), 18, 21–22 (ill.).
• “Notes: Accessions to Museum,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 9, 4 (April, 1915), 57 (ill.).
• “Recent Accessions to Public Collections,” <em>Art and Progress</em> 6, 8 (June, 1915), 287.
• <em>Friends of American Art Yearbook, 1914–1916</em>, 5th ed. (1916), 21, 32–34 (ill.).
• “Catalogue of Artists and Acquisitions,” <em>Friends of American Art Sixth Year Book Chicago, 1916–1918</em> (1918), 9.
• George William Eggers, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings</em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 39, cat. 363.

East River

Art Institute of Chicago

At the Hippodrome

Art Institute of Chicago

Fishing Boats, Rockport

Art Institute of Chicago

Sheet of Sketches: Elephant, Horses and Costumes

Art Institute of Chicago

Performing Seals and Riders

Art Institute of Chicago

Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills

Art Institute of Chicago

Seventeenth-Century Interior

Art Institute of Chicago

Cows in a Pond at Sunset

Art Institute of Chicago

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