The Railway Crossing (Sketch)

1. Rue Winterbotham Carpenter (Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, died 1931), from the late 1920s [letter from Manuel Gonzalez, Apr. 17, 1975, in curatorial file]; by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Patrick Hill, Charlotte, Vt. [letter from Mrs. Patrick Hill, n.d., in the curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Chicago, Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, Jan. 4–18, 1929, cat. 29, as Abstraction.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Paintings in Paris from American Collections, Jan. 19–Feb. 16, 1930, cat. 47.
• Chicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Some Modern Primitives: International Exhibition of Paintings and Prints, July 2–Aug. 16, 1931, cat. 39, as Abstraction.
• New York, Valentine Gallery, Léger: New Paintings, Apr. 9–May 5, 1945, cat. 19, as Le Passage a Niveau
• New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, French Masters, Jan. 19–Feb. 14 1953, cat. 9
• London, The Tate Gallery, Léger and Purist Paris, Nov. 18, 1970–Jan. 24, 1971, cat. 16, as Passage à niveau.
• Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, Mar. 5–Apr. 3, 1976, cat. 5; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, May 13–June 14, 1976; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, June 29–Aug. 22, 1976; Auckland, Auckland City Art Gallery, Sept. 6–Oct. 3, 1976, as Study for The Level Crossing (Le Passage a niveau).
• Buffalo, NY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Fernand Léger, Jan. 15–Feb. 28, 1982, pp. 33, 61, 78, cat. 15; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Mar. 11–Apr. 18, 1982; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, May 17–June 27, 1982, , as Follow the Arrow (Le Passage à niveau).
• Chicago, Arts Club, Portrait of an Era: Rue Winterbotham Carpenter and the Arts Club of Chicago, 1916–1931, Sept. 15–Nov. 1, 1986, cat. 6, as Follow the Arrow.
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, Fernand Léger, Oct. 23–Dec. 12, 1987, cat. 17 (ill.), as Le Passage à Niveau (Follow the Arrow).
• Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat. 30; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994
• Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no.

• Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1929), n.p., cat. 29, as Abstraction.
• Museum of Modern Art, Paintings in Paris from American Collections, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1930), 31–32, cat. 47 (ill.).
• Renaissance Society, Some Modern Primitives: International Exhibition of Paintings and Prints, exh. cat. (Chicago: Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, 1931), n.p., cat. 39, as Abstraction.
• Valentine Gallery, Léger: New Paintings, exh. cat. (New York: Valentine Gallery, 1945), cat. 19, as Le Passage a Niveau.
• Sidney Janis Gallery, Five Years of Janis, exh. cat. (New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953), fig. 75 (ill.).
• Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 257 and 435 (ill.).
• Barry, Edward, “A Legacy that Grows—Winterbotham Collection,” The Chicago Tribune (August 25, 1963), F4, as Follow the Arrow.
• Tate Gallery, Léger and Purist Paris, exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1970), 98, cat. 16, as Passage à niveau.
• Museum of Modern Art, Fernand Léger, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1976), n.p. cat. 5 (ill.), as Study for The Level Crossing.
• Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 51, no. 2D9.
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Fernand Léger, exh. cat. (Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1982), 33, 61, 78, cat. 15 (color ill.), as Follow the Arrow (Le Passage à niveau).
• Silver, Kenneth E., “Fernand Léger: Logic and Liberalism,” Art Journal 42:2 (Summer 1982): 152.

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