
Art Institute of Chicago
Train Crossing a Street
Gino Severini · n.d.
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist to Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, 1917 [Lukach 1969]; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O'Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Gallery of the Photo Secession (Gallery 291), "Severini," March 6–17, 1917, cat. 6.
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 157.
- Paris, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, "Paris–New York," June 1–September 19, 1977, p. 265 (ill.).
- New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, "Severini futurista: 1912–1917," October 20, 1995–January 7, 1996, pp. 47, 48, 96, 97 (ill.), and 99, cat. 21; traveled to the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, February 10–April 9, 1996.
- Paris, France, Musée d'Orsay, "New York et l’art moderne: Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle, 1905–1930," October 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, pp. 178 (ill.) and 326, cat. 99.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Joan M. Lukach, “Severini’s 1917 Exhibition at Stieglitz’s ‘291’,” Burlington Magazine 113:817 (April 1971), pp. 199, 200, 201, 202, and 205, figs. 31, 35.
- Piero Pacini, Gino Severini: disegni e incisioni (Florence, 1977), n.p., cat. 17, pl. 17.
- Fagioli Dell’Arco, Gino Severini: prima e dopo l’opera (Florence, 1983), pp. 34 and 35, fig. C.
- Daniela Fonti, Gino Severini: Catalogo ragionato (Milan, 1988), p. 191 (ill.), cat. 227.
- Sandy Brooke, Hooked on Drawing (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1996), p. 35(ill.).
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