Twentieth Century Ruin by Alexander Brook
Art Institute of Chicago

Twentieth Century Ruin

Alexander Brook · 1932

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Rehn Galleries, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1938.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Champaign, University of Illinois, Architecture Building Gallery, <em>American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, Dec. 3–29, 1939, no cat.
  • Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Berkshire Museum, Aug–Sept. 1941.
  • Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Feb. 6–28, 1946.
  • IN, South Bend Art Association, <em>American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries</em>, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948, cat. 8.
  • New York, Knoedler & Co., Feb–Mar. 1952.
  • Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, Apr. 6–May 1, 1955.
  • WI, Madison Art Association, <em>Exhibition of Traditional Paintings from the Art Institute</em>, Mar. 1956, no cat.
  • Maine, Museum of Art, Ogunquit, <em>Tenth Annual Exhibition</em>, June 30–Sept. 8, 1962, cat. 5.

Literature

Published references

  • James Murray Haddow, <em>American Painting in the Manner of the Late Ninteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries</em>, exh. cat. (South Bend Art Association, 1948), n.p., cat. 8.
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 18, fig. 13 (ill.).

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