Art Institute of Chicago

The Truck

George Segal · 1966

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist; sold through Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Aug. 25, 1966.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

The Art Institute of Chicago, 68th American Exhibition, Aug. 19-Oct. 16, 1966, cat. 18.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Eight Sculptors: The Ambiguous Image, Oct. 22–Dec. 4, 1966, cat. 32.
Sidney Janis Gallery, Sidney Janis Presents an Exhibition of New Work by George Segal, Mar. 29–Apr. 22, 1967, cat. 2.

Literature

Martin Friedman and Jan van der Marck, Eight Sculptors: The Ambiguous Image, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1966), 27, by error as cat. 31 (ill.), 32, 42.
A. James Speyer, 68th American Exhibition, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1966), n.p., cat. 18 (ill.).
Sidney Janis Gallery, Sidney Janis Presents an Exhibition of New Work by George Segal, exh. cat. (New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1967), n.p., cat. 2 (ill.).
Jan Van Der Marck, George Segal (New York: Abrams, 1979), 124, 125, cat. 63 (ill.), 136, 160.
Phyllis Tuchman, George Segal: Modern Master Series, vol. 5 (New York: Abbeville Press, 1983), 28, fig. 20 (ill.).
Sam Hunter and Don Hawthorne, George Segal (New York: Rizzoli, 1984), 169, cat. 52, fig. 167 (color ill.), 357 (ill.), 365.
Suzanne R. Schnepp, “On Time: Appproaches to the Conservation of Film, Videotape, and Digital Media,” in Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies: Conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago, 31, no. 2 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2005), 98, 99, fig. 3 (ill.).
Nora Riccio "George Segal: The Truck," in The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies: Film, Video, New Media at the Art Institute of Chicago: with the Donna and Howard Stone Gift, 35, no. 1 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 10, 11 (color ill).

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