
Art Institute of Chicago
The Wave
Chester Beach · c. 1912
Provenance
Ownership history
- Purchased from the artist at the Armory Show by Dr. Daniel D. Van De Grift on April 15, 1913 [Walt Kuhn to Walter Pach, April 15, 1913. Armory Show Records, Organizer’s Letters, Box 1, Folder 70. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution]; donated to the Art Institute of Chicago [Permanent receipt, R39/1, February 16, 1922]
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, <em>International Exhibition of Modern Art</em>, Feb. 17–Mar. 15, 1913, cat. 655; The Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 24–Apr. 16, 1913 (cat. 8).
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Special exhibitions of works by the following artists: paintings by John W. Alexander; sculpture by Chester Beach; paintings by California artists; paintings by Wilson Irvine; paintings by Edward W. Redfield; paintings, drawings and sketches by Maurice Sterne</em>, Dec. 12, 1916–Jan. 2, 1917, cat. 75.
- Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, <em>American Masters of Sculpture</em>, Oct. 2–31, 1965, cat. 36.
Literature
Published references
- <em>International Exhibition of Modern Art</em>, exh. cat. (Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc., 1913), cat. 655.
- <em>International Exhibition of Modern Art</em>, 2nd ed., exh. cat. (Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Inc., 1913), cat. 8.
- Milton W. Brown, <em>The Story of the Armory Show</em> (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1963), 182, 221, no. 655.
- <em>American Masters of Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Indianapolis: Art Association of Indianapolis, 1965), no. 36.
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