
Art Institute of Chicago
The Shoe Shop
Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones · c. 1911
Provenance
Ownership history
- Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones (1885–1968), c. 1911; to William Owen Goodman (1848–1936), Chicago, by Feb. 1912; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1939.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4508/american-oil-paintings-and-sculpture-24th-annual"><em>The Twenty–Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture</em></a>, Nov. 14–Dec. 27, 1911, cat.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, <em>107th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts</em>, Feb. 4–Mar. 24, 1912, cat.
- Chicago, Charles A. Stevens Store, Mar. 27–May 27, 1956.
- 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].
- Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 43.
- Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, <em>Women Masters, Old and Modern</em>, Oct. 31, 2023–Feb. 4, 2024, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago,<em>Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition in the Art Institute of Chicago, November 14 to December 27, 2911</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1911), cat. 343.
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, <em>Catalog of the 107th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Philadelpha: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1912), 22, cat. 125.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 78.
- Anna O. Marley, "Von Cassatt zu O'Keeffe – Der Aufstieg professionaller Künstlerinnen in den USA," in <em>Es war einmal in Amerika – 300 Jahre US-amerikanische Kunst [Once Upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of American Art]</em>, eds. Barbara Schaefer and Anita Hachmann (Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud/Wienand Verlag, 2018), 132, fig. 14 (ill.).
- Yang Zhigang, ed., <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 43.
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