
Art Institute of Chicago
The Solemn Pledge, Taos Indians
Walter Ufer · 1916
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, Chicago; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1916.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4810/american-oil-paintings-and-sculpture-29th-annual"><em>Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture</em></a>, Nov. 2–Dec. 18, 1916, cat. 267 (awarded the Martin B. Cahn Prize).
- 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. 38, as <em>The Solemn Pledge</em>.
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of Paintings: Collection of the Friends of American Art lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, June 26–July 26, 1926, no. 24.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6310/american-exhibition-50th-annual-half-a-century-of-american-art-1888-1938"><em>Half a Century of American Art</em></a>, Nov. 16, 1939–Jan. 7, 1940, cat. 167.
- Tulsa, Gilcrease Museum, Taos Artists and Their Patrons, May 16–July 18, 1999; South Bend, Indiana, University of Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art, Aug. 15–Nov. 14, 1999; Phoenix Art Museum, Dec. 11, 1999–Mar. 12, 2000; Albuquerque Museum, Apr. 16–July 16, 2000; San Antonio, McNay Art Museum, Aug. 13–Nov. 12, 2000 (Tulsa and South Bend only).
- Denver Art Museum, A Place in the Sun: the Southwest Paintings of Walter Ufer and E. Martin Hennings, Dec. 13, 2015–Apr. 24, 2016; Tulsa, Philbrook Museum of Art, May 29–Aug. 28 2016, cat. 7.19.
Literature
Published references
- Lena M. McCauley, <em>Chicago Evening Post</em>, Nov. 2, 1916.
- Lloyd D. Lewis, <em>Chicago Herald</em>, Nov. 4, 1916.
- <em>Christian Science Monitor</em>, Dec. 1, 1916.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Catalogue of Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1918), n.p., cat. 267.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art</em>, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 38 (ill.), as <em>The Solemn Pledge</em>.
- Daniel Catton Rich, <em>Half a Century of American Art</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1940), 48, cat. 167, pl. XXX (ill.).
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